County has books covering former French weather feature (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
cold front
'weather feature' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both types of natural phenomena as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'county has books covering former french' is the wordplay.
'county has books' becomes 'cont' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'covering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'former' becomes 'old' (both can mean previous).
'french' becomes 'fr' (abbreviation).
'old'+'fr'='oldfr'
'cont' enclosing 'oldfr' is 'COLD FRONT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cold front that I've seen before include "which might change the weather" , "that might bring on a chill" , "sometimes a feature of weather forecast" , "freeze?" , "Meteorological boundary" .)