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* In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', Ed, Al, and Winry are visiting an automail mechanic up in the mountains when a storm breaks out and lightning takes out the bridge back to town. So, of course, the mechanic's pregnant daughter-in-law goes into labor.
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** Similarly in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]], Gracia Hughes goes into labor during a snowstorm.
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* Music/TheRollingStones's "Jumping Jack Flash" was "born in a cross-fire hurricane, and [howled] at [his] ma in the driving rain," which was only the beginning to the man's tumultuous and exciting life.
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* Music/TheRollingStones's Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}'s "Jumping Jack Flash" was "born in a cross-fire hurricane, and [howled] at [his] ma in the driving rain," which was only the beginning to the man's tumultuous and exciting life.
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* In ''Film/{{Hours}}'', baby Abigail is born as Hurricane Katrina bears down on New Orleans. However, the baby needs to be kept on a ventilator for two days, which proves more and more difficult the worse the storm gets.
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* In ''Film/{{Hours}}'', ''Film/{{Hours|2013}}'', baby Abigail is born as Hurricane Katrina bears down on New Orleans. However, the baby needs to be kept on a ventilator for two days, which proves more and more difficult the worse the storm gets.
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* {{Justified}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince''. Sky Dragons, owing to the nature of their species, can only be born in thunderstorms. When the dragon egg he's been protecting throughout the first season, which is carrying the titular Dragon Prince they consider to be the key to peace, winds up in bad shape, Callum breaks his Primal Stone, unleashing a thunderstorm that forces the egg to hatch.
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* {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince''. Sky Dragons, owing to the nature of their species, can only be born in thunderstorms. When the dragon egg he's been protecting throughout the first season, which is carrying the titular Dragon Prince they consider to be the key to peace, winds up in bad shape, Callum breaks his Primal Stone, unleashing a thunderstorm that forces the egg to hatch.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JohnHenryAndTheInkyPoo'': There's thunder and lightning as John Henry is born, appropriate as in this version of the story, he's a mythical giant, Myth/PaulBunyan-style. (He's also BornAsAnAdult.)
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* PlayedForDrama in Music/AnaisMitchell's "Shepherd". A farmer and his wife are faced with the choice of protecting the harvest from the coming storm or taking her to the hospital. They choose the former, but the wife dies in childbirth.
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* Variation in ''Film/{{Ashfall}}''. Ji-young gives birth during a devastating earthquake, with the shaky camera, her husband's daring escape, and the shots of the devastation accompanying the pain of childbirth.
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* ''Series/HometownChaChaCha'': Episode 13. Yun-gyeong eventually has to have a home birth (assisted by the dentist protagonist) because a typhoon has blocked access to the hospitals. The ScreamingBirth is juxtaposed with the lightning and rain outside; another scene shows her daughter (who is staying with a family friend) praying for a safe birth to the lightning. By morning, the baby has arrived and the skies have cleared.
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* In the nursery rhyme ''Solomon Grundy'', Solomon was "born on a black and beastly Monday".
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* Music/TennesseeErnieFord: "Sixteen Tons" gives two different accounts of the protagonist's birth, both downplayed. In the second verse, "born one morning when the sun didn't shine" and in the third: "born one morning, it was drizzling rain".
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This trope is when a baby is born while a storm rages outside. Not only does it add flair to a childbirth scene, the DramaticWind, rain/snow, DramaticThunder, and lightning [[EmpathicEnvironment thematically reflect the pain of the mother]] as she tries to bring her child into the world -- bonus points if it's a ScreamingBirth. By the time the birth is over the storm will usually have passed and the mother can hold her child in peace, although there may be added tension regarding how to keep the baby safe should the storm cut off access to utilities or access to society.
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This trope is used to mark a character as special as it's a dramatic and exciting start to their life -- indeed, a woman might give birth during the BigStormEpisode for no reason other than RuleOfDrama. This is doubly so if the storm is supernatural in nature. At the very least, the baby's life will be dramatic and exciting to match their birth; they may also have some [[MeaningfulName weather-related name]] to match. This also juxtaposes the death and destruction caused by severe storms with the birth of new life -- see BirthDeathJuxtaposition and LifeDeathJuxtaposition.
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This trope is used to mark a character as special as it's a dramatic and exciting start to their life, and may foreshadow an eventful and fast-paced life to match their birth -- indeed, a woman might give birth during the BigStormEpisode for no reason other than RuleOfDrama. This is doubly so if [[WeirdWeather the storm is supernatural in nature. At the very least, the baby's life will be dramatic and exciting to match their birth; they nature]]. The child may also have some be given a [[MeaningfulName weather-related name]] to match. This also juxtaposes the death and destruction caused by severe storms with the birth of new life -- see BirthDeathJuxtaposition and LifeDeathJuxtaposition.
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[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin This trope is when a baby is born while a storm rages outside.]] Not only does it add flair to a childbirth scene, the DramaticWind, rain/snow, DramaticThunder, and lightning [[EmpathicEnvironment thematically reflect the pain of the mother]] as she tries to bring her child into the world -- bonus points if it's a ScreamingBirth. By the time the birth is over the storm will usually have passed and the mother can hold her child in peace, although there may be added tension regarding how to keep the baby safe should the storm cut off access to utilities or access to society.
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[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin This trope is when a baby is born while a storm rages outside. outside.]] Not only does it add flair to a childbirth scene, the DramaticWind, rain/snow, DramaticThunder, and lightning [[EmpathicEnvironment thematically reflect the pain of the mother]] as she tries to bring her child into the world -- bonus points if it's a ScreamingBirth. By the time the birth is over the storm will usually have passed and the mother can hold her child in peace, although there may be added tension regarding how to keep the baby safe should the storm cut off access to utilities or access to society.
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* Rory from ''Literature/WickedGood'' was born on October 28, 1991, during the Perfect Storm. His mother was working through the storm when she [[MaternityCrisis unexpectedly went into labor]] and gave birth at the bar.
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* ''VideoGame/Dota2'': Lyralei, the Windranger. The storm in which she was born in was so destructive it leveled her village and killed her family, but also blessed her with the spirit of the wind. This is why she's a MasterArcher.
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* ''VideoGame/Dota2'': Lyralei, the Windranger. The storm in which she was born in was so destructive it leveled her village and killed her family, but also blessed her with the spirit of the wind. This is why she's a MasterArcher.
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* In ''Fanfic/{{Maelstrom}}'', Izuku was born during a tempest that had Musutafu in a state of emergency.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'' posits that WonderWoman was "born" on the night of a hunter's moon with an impressive electrical storm rolling in over the ocean.
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* Esk from ''Discworld/EqualRites'' is born in the Ramtops, noted to be thunderstorm country, and the wizard who comes for her when she is born arrives in a storm.
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* Esk from ''Discworld/EqualRites'' ''Literature/EqualRites'' is born in the Ramtops, noted to be thunderstorm country, and the wizard who comes for her when she is born arrives in a storm.
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* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': Perdita gives birth during a rainy October night. The patter of falling rain and occasional distant sound of thunder adds to the anxiety of the scene as Roger and Pongo wait outside, then when Roger is reviving one of the puppies. When Cruella bursts in to buy the whole litter, she is backlit by a flash of lightning, accompanied by a loud thunderclap.
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* ''Literature/ShowBoat'' begins InMediasRes with the birth of Kim Ravenal on board the ''Cotton Blossom'' during a powerful storm swelling the Mississippi waters. While this birth scene was originally omitted from TheMusical, it was added back for the 1936 film version and 1994 theatrical revival.
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* ''Theatre/TheUnsinkableMollyBrown'' discusses this regarding the title character:
-->'''Shamus''' ''(Studying his wild offspring)'': There was a cyclone the day you was born. You musta swallered the tail a' that twister.\\
'''Molly''' ''(Spinning around)'': I got a cyclone inside me, all right.
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* ''Theatre/TheUnsinkableMollyBrown'' discusses this regarding the title character:
-->'''Shamus''' ''(Studying his wild offspring)'': There was a cyclone the day you was born. You musta swallered the tail a' that twister.\\
'''Molly''' ''(Spinning around)'': I got a cyclone inside me, all right.
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* A long-standing tale about UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla is that he was born during a lightning storm at night; the apparent implication being that the adult Tesla's dedication to the study and utilization of electricity was {{foreshadow|ing}}ed at his birth.
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->''"Nothing brings on labor like a prairie blizzard. Women have been known to give birth in prairie blizzards even when they weren't actually pregnant.''"
-->-- '''Creator/DaveBarry''', ''Literature/BabiesAndOtherHazardsOfSex''
This trope is when a baby is born while a storm rages outside. Not only does it add flair to a childbirth scene, the DramaticWind, rain/snow, DramaticThunder, and lightning [[EmpathicEnvironment thematically reflect the pain of the mother]] as she tries to bring her child into the world -- bonus points if it's a ScreamingBirth. By the time the birth is over the storm will usually have passed and the mother can hold her child in peace, although there may be added tension regarding how to keep the baby safe should the storm cut off access to utilities or access to society.
This trope is used to mark a character as special as it's a dramatic and exciting start to their life -- indeed, a woman might give birth during the BigStormEpisode for no reason other than RuleOfDrama. This is doubly so if the storm is supernatural in nature. At the very least, the baby's life will be dramatic and exciting to match their birth; they may also have some [[MeaningfulName weather-related name]] to match. This also juxtaposes the death and destruction caused by severe storms with the birth of new life -- see BirthDeathJuxtaposition and LifeDeathJuxtaposition.
If the baby is born at the beginning, this may be mixed with ItWasADarkAndStormyNight. If the mother is also in danger as she's giving birth (eg. she's trapped outside in the storm), it overlaps with MaternityCrisis. For when lightning itself brings forth life, see LightningCanDoAnything.
There is some TruthInTelevision to this: it's an old wives' tale that storms induce labor, and several locations claim surges in births during hurricanes, typhoons, blizzards, or other storms. In modern times, heavily pregnant women in safe zones sometimes head to hospitals as a precaution. However, there are very few studies that decisively link between natural disasters and the so-called "disaster baby boom". What ''causes'' this supposed increase in labor, if anything, is so far unknown -- earlier theories had to do with drops in barometric pressure, while others purport that it has to do with stress or temperature.
Not to be confused with ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm''.
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* The titular character of ''Manga/{{Georgie}}'' was born in a thunderstorm. Her birth mother died [[spoiler:being crushed by a tree in the storm]].
* ''Anime/LaytonMysteryDetectiveAgency'': Katrielle was born during a storm. On a ship. That was sinking because of said storm. Her mom didn't make it.
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* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip, Snoopy types a letter to his mother with the words, "I remember the night I was born. ItWasADarkAndStormyNight..."
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* A reincarnation variation happens in ''FanFic/KyoshiRising''. Avatar Kuruk dies quelling a storm in the Northern Water Tribe. [[BirthDeathJuxtaposition Cut to]] the birth of his reincarnation Kyoshi in the Earth Kingdom.
* In ''FanFic/TheLionOfTheNorth'', "Tommen Baratheon, second in line for the throne of Westeros, was born, [[spoiler:blue-eyed, black-haired]] and screaming, during the fiercest storm that had swept over King's Landing in many years".
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* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': Perdita gives birth during a rainy October night. The patter of falling rain and occasional distant sound of thunder adds to the anxiety of the scene as Roger and Pongo wait outside, then when Roger is reviving one of the puppies. When Cruella bursts in to buy the whole litter, she is backlit by a flash of lightning, accompanied by a loud thunderclap.
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* In ''Film/{{Hours}}'', baby Abigail is born as Hurricane Katrina bears down on New Orleans. However, the baby needs to be kept on a ventilator for two days, which proves more and more difficult the worse the storm gets.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': The night Rocky is "born" is the night with a storm so bad it forced Brad and Janet to seek refuge in the castle.
* Single mother Novalee goes into labor alone in the Walmart she has been living in during a thunderstorm in ''Film/WhereTheHeartIs''. The setting of the birth emphasizes her dire life situation. Good thing [[LoveInterest Forney]] arrives to assist with the birth.
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* Creator/DaveBarry discusses this in his book ''Literature/BabiesAndOtherHazardsOfSex''.
-->''If you'd like more technical details on the childbirth process, I suggest you view one of the many fine prairie dramas on television wherein some pathetic wispy-haired pioneer woman goes into labor during a blizzard in the most god-awful desolate prairie place, such as Kansas. Nothing brings on labor like a prairie blizzard. Women have been known to give birth in prairie blizzards even when they weren't actually pregnant.''
* Rose, the heroine of ''Literature/{{East}}'', was born in the middle of a storm. This is the least of her family's concerns regarding her birth, as they had wanted her to be a genteel east-born child. She is instead a willfull north-born child to match her birth.
* Esk from ''Discworld/EqualRites'' is born in the Ramtops, noted to be thunderstorm country, and the wizard who comes for her when she is born arrives in a storm.
* ''Literature/RonjaTheRobbersDaughter'': Ronja was born during a storm so fierce that it split the castle where she was born in half.
* Thowra, the ghost stallion of ''Literature/TheSilverBrumby'', was born during a storm. It's part of the reason he got his name, which is an Aboriginal word for "wind".
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' Daenerys Targaryen was born at the tail end of Robert's Rebellion, during a storm at Dragonstone which sunk the Targaryen fleet. This is the reason one of her titles is "Stormborn".
* Crookedstar of ''Literature/WarriorCats'' was originally named Stormkit, as he and his brother Oakheart (born Oakkit) were born as the [=RiverClan=] was fleeing a flood during a storm. Their mother took shelter in an oak to give birth to them.
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* On the BigStormEpisode of ''Series/TheNightShift'', Topher's pregnant wife Janet and their daughter are stranded by the side of the road. Janet's water has already broken, so Topher deserts the hospital to deliver the baby in the car. They travel to the hospital to deliver the second baby.
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* Music/MartyRobbins: "Feleena (From El Paso)" begins describing Feleena's birth -- she was born in a thunderstorm in New Mexico, and the storm died down as she first cried.
* Music/TheRollingStones's "Jumping Jack Flash" was "born in a cross-fire hurricane, and [howled] at [his] ma in the driving rain," which was only the beginning to the man's tumultuous and exciting life.
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* ''Series/TheWeather'': One of the "Thunderstorm" sketches involves a baby being born in a ScreamingBirth, as the elements rage outside.
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* ''Webcomic/StrongFemaleProtagonist'': Alison Green, who develops FlyingBrick superpowers in her teens, was born while a mysterious storm raged across the entire Earth in 1991. As superpowers have only been found among born in that year or after, it's heavily suspected that the storm is actually [[MassEmpoweringEvent what caused all the superheroes]].
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* {{Justified}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince''. Sky Dragons, owing to the nature of their species, can only be born in thunderstorms. When the dragon egg he's been protecting throughout the first season, which is carrying the titular Dragon Prince they consider to be the key to peace, winds up in bad shape, Callum breaks his Primal Stone, unleashing a thunderstorm that forces the egg to hatch.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Arnold's mother went into labor during a volcanic eruption in the middle of the jungle. The eruption stopped the exact second Arnold was born.
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-->-- '''Creator/DaveBarry''', ''Literature/BabiesAndOtherHazardsOfSex''
This trope is when a baby is born while a storm rages outside. Not only does it add flair to a childbirth scene, the DramaticWind, rain/snow, DramaticThunder, and lightning [[EmpathicEnvironment thematically reflect the pain of the mother]] as she tries to bring her child into the world -- bonus points if it's a ScreamingBirth. By the time the birth is over the storm will usually have passed and the mother can hold her child in peace, although there may be added tension regarding how to keep the baby safe should the storm cut off access to utilities or access to society.
This trope is used to mark a character as special as it's a dramatic and exciting start to their life -- indeed, a woman might give birth during the BigStormEpisode for no reason other than RuleOfDrama. This is doubly so if the storm is supernatural in nature. At the very least, the baby's life will be dramatic and exciting to match their birth; they may also have some [[MeaningfulName weather-related name]] to match. This also juxtaposes the death and destruction caused by severe storms with the birth of new life -- see BirthDeathJuxtaposition and LifeDeathJuxtaposition.
If the baby is born at the beginning, this may be mixed with ItWasADarkAndStormyNight. If the mother is also in danger as she's giving birth (eg. she's trapped outside in the storm), it overlaps with MaternityCrisis. For when lightning itself brings forth life, see LightningCanDoAnything.
There is some TruthInTelevision to this: it's an old wives' tale that storms induce labor, and several locations claim surges in births during hurricanes, typhoons, blizzards, or other storms. In modern times, heavily pregnant women in safe zones sometimes head to hospitals as a precaution. However, there are very few studies that decisively link between natural disasters and the so-called "disaster baby boom". What ''causes'' this supposed increase in labor, if anything, is so far unknown -- earlier theories had to do with drops in barometric pressure, while others purport that it has to do with stress or temperature.
Not to be confused with ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm''.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* The titular character of ''Manga/{{Georgie}}'' was born in a thunderstorm. Her birth mother died [[spoiler:being crushed by a tree in the storm]].
* ''Anime/LaytonMysteryDetectiveAgency'': Katrielle was born during a storm. On a ship. That was sinking because of said storm. Her mom didn't make it.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip, Snoopy types a letter to his mother with the words, "I remember the night I was born. ItWasADarkAndStormyNight..."
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* A reincarnation variation happens in ''FanFic/KyoshiRising''. Avatar Kuruk dies quelling a storm in the Northern Water Tribe. [[BirthDeathJuxtaposition Cut to]] the birth of his reincarnation Kyoshi in the Earth Kingdom.
* In ''FanFic/TheLionOfTheNorth'', "Tommen Baratheon, second in line for the throne of Westeros, was born, [[spoiler:blue-eyed, black-haired]] and screaming, during the fiercest storm that had swept over King's Landing in many years".
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[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': Perdita gives birth during a rainy October night. The patter of falling rain and occasional distant sound of thunder adds to the anxiety of the scene as Roger and Pongo wait outside, then when Roger is reviving one of the puppies. When Cruella bursts in to buy the whole litter, she is backlit by a flash of lightning, accompanied by a loud thunderclap.
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[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
* In ''Film/{{Hours}}'', baby Abigail is born as Hurricane Katrina bears down on New Orleans. However, the baby needs to be kept on a ventilator for two days, which proves more and more difficult the worse the storm gets.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': The night Rocky is "born" is the night with a storm so bad it forced Brad and Janet to seek refuge in the castle.
* Single mother Novalee goes into labor alone in the Walmart she has been living in during a thunderstorm in ''Film/WhereTheHeartIs''. The setting of the birth emphasizes her dire life situation. Good thing [[LoveInterest Forney]] arrives to assist with the birth.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Creator/DaveBarry discusses this in his book ''Literature/BabiesAndOtherHazardsOfSex''.
-->''If you'd like more technical details on the childbirth process, I suggest you view one of the many fine prairie dramas on television wherein some pathetic wispy-haired pioneer woman goes into labor during a blizzard in the most god-awful desolate prairie place, such as Kansas. Nothing brings on labor like a prairie blizzard. Women have been known to give birth in prairie blizzards even when they weren't actually pregnant.''
* Rose, the heroine of ''Literature/{{East}}'', was born in the middle of a storm. This is the least of her family's concerns regarding her birth, as they had wanted her to be a genteel east-born child. She is instead a willfull north-born child to match her birth.
* Esk from ''Discworld/EqualRites'' is born in the Ramtops, noted to be thunderstorm country, and the wizard who comes for her when she is born arrives in a storm.
* ''Literature/RonjaTheRobbersDaughter'': Ronja was born during a storm so fierce that it split the castle where she was born in half.
* Thowra, the ghost stallion of ''Literature/TheSilverBrumby'', was born during a storm. It's part of the reason he got his name, which is an Aboriginal word for "wind".
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' Daenerys Targaryen was born at the tail end of Robert's Rebellion, during a storm at Dragonstone which sunk the Targaryen fleet. This is the reason one of her titles is "Stormborn".
* Crookedstar of ''Literature/WarriorCats'' was originally named Stormkit, as he and his brother Oakheart (born Oakkit) were born as the [=RiverClan=] was fleeing a flood during a storm. Their mother took shelter in an oak to give birth to them.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* On the BigStormEpisode of ''Series/TheNightShift'', Topher's pregnant wife Janet and their daughter are stranded by the side of the road. Janet's water has already broken, so Topher deserts the hospital to deliver the baby in the car. They travel to the hospital to deliver the second baby.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Music/MartyRobbins: "Feleena (From El Paso)" begins describing Feleena's birth -- she was born in a thunderstorm in New Mexico, and the storm died down as she first cried.
* Music/TheRollingStones's "Jumping Jack Flash" was "born in a cross-fire hurricane, and [howled] at [his] ma in the driving rain," which was only the beginning to the man's tumultuous and exciting life.
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[[folder:Web Video]]
* ''Series/TheWeather'': One of the "Thunderstorm" sketches involves a baby being born in a ScreamingBirth, as the elements rage outside.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/StrongFemaleProtagonist'': Alison Green, who develops FlyingBrick superpowers in her teens, was born while a mysterious storm raged across the entire Earth in 1991. As superpowers have only been found among born in that year or after, it's heavily suspected that the storm is actually [[MassEmpoweringEvent what caused all the superheroes]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* {{Justified}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince''. Sky Dragons, owing to the nature of their species, can only be born in thunderstorms. When the dragon egg he's been protecting throughout the first season, which is carrying the titular Dragon Prince they consider to be the key to peace, winds up in bad shape, Callum breaks his Primal Stone, unleashing a thunderstorm that forces the egg to hatch.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Arnold's mother went into labor during a volcanic eruption in the middle of the jungle. The eruption stopped the exact second Arnold was born.
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