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May bring rain when it's terribly cold around mid-January (5)

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I believe the answer is:

cloud

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'may bring rain when' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'terribly cold around mid-january' is the wordplay.
'terribly' indicates an anagram.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'mid' says to take the centre (mid- can mean the middle of something).
The centre of 'january' is 'u'.
'cold' is an anagram of 'clod'.
'clod' going around 'u' is 'CLOUD'.

'it's' is the link.

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(Other definitions for cloud that I've seen before include "Eg, cumulus" , "Become less transparent" , "Mass of airborne water vapour" , "Dull spot" , "Mass of water droplets" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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