Schönwetter

From schön (“beautiful, nice”) +‎ Wetter (“weather”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃøːnˌvɛtɐ/, (in compounds usually) /ˌʃøːnˈvɛtɐ/

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• Hyphenation: Schön‧wet‧ter

Schönwetter n (strong, genitive Schönwetters, no plural)

1. good weather

   Ein atlantisches Hochdruckgebiet bringt uns anhaltendes Schönwetter.

   An Atlantic high-pressure area brings us prolonged good weather.

2. (figurative, in compounds) fair-weather: unreliable, fickle, unsteady

   Schönwetterfreund ― fair-weather friend

   Schönwetterfußballer ― a moody footballer who only performs when he or his team have a good day

• Chiefly used in longer compounds (e.g. Schönwetterlage) and occasionally with a preceding adjective (as in the example above). Otherwise the phrases schönes Wetter or gutes Wetter are much more common.
• The compound should be distinguished from schön Wetter (with stress on Wetter), which is an informal variant of schönes Wetter. It occurs especially in the idiom schön Wetter machen, also gut Wetter machen, which see.

• “Schönwetter” in Duden online
• “Schönwetter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache