to cross paths with (someone or something)

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 495: Describing Winds and Storms.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 495. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is a dialogue between Ali and Mariela about describing weather that has a lot of wind or where there are storms, where there is rain and clouds, that sort of thing. It will use a lot of vocabulary related to the weather. Let’s get started.

Ali: It’s just our luck that as soon as we arrive here for our island vacation, there’s a hurricane warning!

Mariela: It’s uncanny, isn’t it? On last year’s vacation, we crossed paths with a tornado and now this.

Ali: Yeah, that tornado was something. I had experienced windstorms before