History Main / PerpetualStorm

* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. After an Egyptian pharaoh took the Ark of the Covenant to the city of Tanis, the city was destroyed by a sandstorm that lasted an entire year (note that this did not occur in RealLife).

* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' there is talk of "the Everstorm" that is yet to come, which seems to be a metaphor for the FinalBattle (see also AStormIsComing). However, given that the world is periodically wracked by powerful "highstorms" which may or may not be sent by the BigBad, there might be a literal storm in the offing.
** We get to see it in ''WordsOfRadiance''. [[spoiler: It's an EvilCounterpart of the highstorms (which are sent by a powerful but good spren known as the Stormfather) which blows the wrong way and transforms the Parshendi shapeshifter race into [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Voidbringers]].]]

* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' there is talk of "the Everstorm" that is yet to come, which seems to be a metaphor for the FinalBattle (see also AStormIsComing). However, given that the world is periodically wracked by powerful storms which may or may not be sent by the BigBad, there might be a literal storm in the offing.

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* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. After an Egyptian pharaoh took the Ark of the Covenant to the city of Tanis, the city was destroyed by a sandstorm that lasted an entire year (note that this did not occur in RealLife).

* The setting of ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' takes place in the land of Malaria which is besieged by ever encompassing storm clouds which force its inhabitants to become {{Mad Scientist}}s to survive. [[spoiler:Said clouds were brought about by King Malbert's weather machine.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'', it's mentioned by the students that the town they live in has lightning storms practically every night.

* ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'' has the western half of Sair, which has existed in a state of perpetual monsoon-like rains for as long as history has been recorded. The capital city is built entirely on a giant platform set on tall pylons, and ''still'' floods occasionally. Unlike most versions of this trope, it's not supernatural; just a very wet air current hitting very big mountains, creating constant rain on one side and a ShiftingSandLand on the other side.

In the real world, storms last for hours or days at most. In fiction, however, thanks to WeatherManipulation and {{Weather Control Machine}}s, characters can create storms that last significantly longer.

* ''Literature/TheZombieKnight has the western half of Sair, which has existed in a state of perpetual monsoon-like rains for as long as history has been recorded. The capital city is built entirely on a giant platform set on tall pylons, and ''still'' floods occasionally. Unlike most versions of this trope, it's not supernatural; just a very wet air current hitting very big mountains, creating constant rain on one side and a ShiftingSandLand on the other side.

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* In ''Series/{{StargateSG-1}}'', planet Heliopolis has a month-long storm each year.

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Expect a lot of DramaticThunder and DramaticWind, if the protagonists have to travel through the storm.

* Anime series ''Anime/TacticalRoar'' justifies its premise (a resurrected naval age with [[HeroesRUs for-hire cargo protection]] and an UnwantedHarem cast manning an [[CoolShip Arleigh Burke-class destroyer]]) with a "mega-hurricane" (the titular "Tactical Roar") making air transportation in the Pan-Pacific area impossible, and having done so for a decade by the time the story starts.

* Creator/RobertSheckley's story ''A Wind is Rising'' centers around a human station with two people, based on a planet where the wind never drops below 70 mph. They barely weather a storm of nearly 200 mph, which leaves with with a severely battered station and a broken vehicle. Then a local (who gives them weather forecasts) says "Sorry for my last forecast not being accurate enough to warn you about this moderate gale. Why is it my last forecast? Well, the summer is over, and now [[WhamLine me and my people must leave]] to [[ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts hide from the powerful winter storms]]."

* The Maelstrom between the continents in 'VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. It was created in the backstory by [[WorldSundering the Great Sundering]], where the [[CosmicKeystone Well of Eternity]] collapsed into itself, destroying nearly 80 percent of Kalimdor's landmass in the process.

* ''Discworld/TheLastContinent.. is surrounded by a perpetual cyclone that not only prevents people from sailing away (new arrivals are mostly shipwrecked people), but also rainfall (the natives get confused and angry when people mention water coming from the sky).

* In ''[[Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish]]'' Bob [=McKenna=] has recorded a log showing that it rains everywhere, all the time. This is because, unknown to himself, he's a rain god and the clouds are honoring him by raining wherever he is.
* A massive dust storm kicks up in ''[[Literature/RedMarsTrilogy Red Mars]]'' as a result of the nascent terraforming efforts. It last for ''years'', and there are wild celebrations when it finally ends.

* In ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', Odysseus' ship lands on the island of Thrinacia, where lives the cattle of the sun god, Helios. [[TopGod Zeus]] then causes a storm lasting for forty days, which [[ClosedCircle prevents them from leaving]] the island. After depleting their food stocks, the ship's crew hunt down the cattle, angering the god. When the storm finally ends they leave the island only to have their ship crushed by another Zeus' storm, which leaves Odysseus as the [[SoleSurvivor sole survivor]].

* In ''[[VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight FTL: Faster Than Light]]'', Nebulae last forever (or at least as long as you are within the sector). Ion storms, which happen within Nebulae will always last the duration of the battle, but can clear up if you're out-of-fuel and have to wait inside the storm.

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Or they could be naturally-ocurring. This can avert AllPlanetsAreEarthLike; an alien planet with a PerpetualStorm will seem a lot less hospitable even if it's not a full-on DeathWorld.

* In one version of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'''s origins the spaceship carrying baby Kal-El to Earth crashed into Kansas during a several months long snowstorm, cutting off the Kent farm and allowing the Kents to pass him off as their own child.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle''. After the Grand Duke of Owls's minions drive Chanticleer away from the farm, he utilized his evil magical powers to conjure up a storm over the entire farmland, and it continues to brew until when Chanticleer is finally brought back to the farm and he is able to crow again, thus awaking the sun and foiling the Duke's storm. During this time, the storm even makes headlines: "MYSTERIOUS RAIN SPREADING" and "SUN DON'T SHINE FOR FARMERS". [[spoiler: It was AllJustADream though]].

* The ''Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay includes a permanent belt of storms called the Wrack, which starts at the North Pole, where the eldritch Manes live and runs across a large segment of ocean. Only recently has anyone found way past to the lands beyond.

* In ''Forbidden Desert'' the players crash land in some ancient ruins in the middle of the desert. They have to fix an ancient airship and escape the desert before they are buried in sand by the endless sand storm that moves back and forth through the area.

* The setting of ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' takes place in the land of Malaria which is besieged by ever encompassing storm clouds which force its inhabitants to become {{Mad Scientist}}s to survive. [[spoiler: Said clouds were brought about by King Malbert's weather machine.]]

* The longest recorded storm on Earth was 1994's Hurricane John, which lasted for thirty-one days.
* Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm two to three times the size of Earth. It's been raging for at least two hundred years.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning Catatumbo Lightning]] is an atmospheric phenomenon near the mouth of the Catatumbo River in Venezuela that produces extremely frequent and incredibly active thunderstorms--up to 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and nearly 5 strikes per minute. Locals sometimes refer to it as the Lighthouse of Maracaibo.
* The Aleutian Islands such as Shemya have a reputation of places with ''really'' foul weather patterns. The military say that the wind never drops below 60 knots, the temperature never rises above -20 C and there's a 10-foot visibility fog 300 days of the year.

* Martian dust storms can last for years.