History Main / WeatherDissonance

** Inverted in ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', when Igor and Jeremy need a thunderstorm to start the Glass Clock. Jeremy keeps claiming that they don't have one (for reasons of his own, mostly to spend more time with Myria [=LeJean=]), but Igor points out that they have had several available in the last few weeks, none of which Jeremy has used.
** Also in ''Discworld/TheTruth'', Otto bemoans the fact that In Ankh-Morpork, unlike in {{Uberwald}}, you don't get a roll of thunder anytime you say something dramatic (or just mention the word 'castle'). About halfway through the book, this ''does'' start happening. He's thrilled.

* Inverted in ''Literature/GoodOmens'': one of the odd things about the Antichrist's home town was that it always had normal weather for the time of year... the one thing you ''don't'' expect in England.

** Can be [[InvokedTrope invoked]] with through the various moves and abilities which generate weather effects. Harsh sunlight underground? Check. Hail in the desert? Yep. Gale force wind indoors? Of course. Sandstorm in the sky? Certainly. [[BeyondTheImpossible Rain on the seafloor]]? Why not?

* On January 11th, 2008, [[http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Snow_falls_in_Baghdad_for_first_time_in_100_years snow fell in Baghdad for the first time in a hundred years.]]

* Disney's Blizzard Beach plays with this. It's a water park with a ski resort theme, despite central Florida lacking both mountains and snow.

** Case in point, a big snowstorm caused a major panic in 2014... because it happened in September, when the trees still hadn't lost their leaves, meaning big branches or even entire trees were falling all over the place.

* Calgary. Blizzards in June, heat waves in January, sixteen inches of rain in two days followed by two years of drought...

!!Examples

[[folder:Anime]]
* It starts snowing in August in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''.
** The wacky weather was worldwide during the season - in addition to the August snowstorm in the first episode, there was also extremely dry conditions in Southeast Asia (where it would normally be monsoon season) and more snow in the US.

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* In Creator/MarvelComics, the Casket of Ancient Winters was opened in the Simonson ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' era. This ended up being a godsend for continuity-mad fans to explain away appearances of winter weather in other comics that couldn't have actually happened in winter because of the floating timeline.
* ComicBook/{{Storm}} tends to whip up fogs and tornadoes to suit her purposes, and then there's the time Dr. Doom turned her into a living statue. Claustrophobia + Weather Powers = continent sized class 5 hurricane.

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]

-->'''Newt:''' "When do you remember normal weather for the time of year? Normal weather for the time of year isn't normal, Sergeant. It has [[DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas snow at Christmas]]. When did you last see snow at Christmas?"

* In Bryan Miranda's ''The Journey to Atlantis,'' there are several instances of this. First is the freak thunderstorm that destroys the ship and strands the characters on the island. Then there are various sunny days, rainy days, and even snowstorms, seemingly coming out of nowhere. It is revealed later that [[spoiler: Loki was responsible for most of the weather changes, using them merely to annoy and injure the characters to his liking.]]

* In the webnovel ''[[Literature/DoNotTakeTheShells DO NOT TAKE THE SHELLS]]'', the town of Taveye is cloudy all the time, despite the story taking place in the middle of summer.

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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The Block Is Hot" features a 90° F day and its effects on the people of the neighborhood -- only to have those effects rapidly undone when it turns out that it's February and it starts abruptly snowing again. Suddenly Huey doesn't look so out of place in his heavy coat he's been wearing the whole time.

[[folder:RealLife]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[-[[Music/{{Garbage}} I'm only happy when it rains lunch!]]]]-]

* A Boy Scout troop in Southern Wisconsin is nicknamed 'The Rainmakers', and even displays the name proudly on their T-shirts. They picked up the moniker when it rained during every single campout they went on for several years straight.

* According to ''Forbes'', Springfield, Missouri is the city in the United States with the most varied weather. It's a combination of higher elevation than the surrounding regions, being landlocked, and right on the edge of tornado alley.

* Minnesota. It's not unknown for there to be snow by October; in fact, there are several famous instances where there was a blizzard on ''Halloween''. And yet the state is an oven in summer. [[http://climate.umn.edu/doc/journal/july_snow.htmyears The only month there have been no snow in Minnesota is July.]]
* Colorado is much like Minnesota. The first snowfall in the Rocky Mountains typically happens by early October and snow can last on the fourteeners as late as the end of June. Meanwhile, temperatures can vary by upwards of 20 degrees between the mountains and the plains in the winter. The state also is fairly dry and hot during summer months.

* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' Hiccup describes the climate along these lines: "It snows nine months out of the year and hails the other three." [[FridgeLogic And yet it's been bright and sunny the entire film.]]
** It even rains in one scene!
** That was hyperbole. In the beginning, Hiccup narrates (falsely, for dramatic purposes) that the place he lives is perfect, aside from the awful dragons. In the end, he turns it around by saying (falsely, for dramatic purposes) that the dragons are the only remotely tolerable thing about his home.

* The aptly named Weather Report of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has a power allows him to control the weather. At one point he makes it rain poison arrow frogs, as it has rained frogs in the past.

* The [[spoiler: rain of frogs]] at the end of ''Film/{{Magnolia}}''.

* In ''Film/BigGame'', after an explosion evaporates a huge lake, Oskari's family experiences a rain of fish on an otherwise sunny day.

* In ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'', Nikita keeps noting that even though it's mid-October, the weather is still very summer-like and both migrating birds and the trees that lose their leafs are confused and behaving wrong for the season. It's implied that it's not natural and that the Norse pantheon has something to do with this, but it's never comfirmed.

* Used a bit strangely in ''Literature/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', where the tiny town of Chewandswallow never got normal weather, but instead all their food came from the weather (usually falling like rain, but things occasionally blew in, and a jell-o mold [[WatchingTheSunset set in the west]]). TheFilmOfTheBook made this the result of a WeatherControlMachine.

* In ''Animal Crackers'', [[MarxBrothers Chico and Harpo Marx]] avoid having to go out in a thunderstorm by taking an alternate exit into a sunny garden.

* In MarvelComics, the Casket of Ancient Winters was opened in the Simonson ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' era. This ended up being a godsend for continuity-mad fans to explain away appearances of winter weather in other comics that couldn't have actually happened in winter because of the floating timeline.

* Minnesota. It's not unknown for there to be snow by October; in fact, there are several famous instances where there was a blizzard on ''Halloween''. And yet the state is an oven in summer.

* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', Kauffman points out how strange it is for snow to be falling "this time of year", though he never says exactly what time of year it is. Also subverted in the fact that [[spoiler: it's not really snow]].

* In Creator/UrsulaKLeguin's ''[[Literature/EarthseaTrilogy Wizard of Earthsea]]'', the first ability Ged shows is summoning a mist against a raiding party. Other wizards can control the wind (helpful when sailing among islands) and it was common for a rainstorm to go zigzagging over an island until it reaches the sea where it can rain in peace, without a wizard under it. Ged's mentor, on the other hand, was a wise soul who would let it rain on him.

* In Jim Butcher's DresdenFiles novel ''Small Favor'', early and heavy snowfall. Harry suspect that Queen Mab sent it as a ''favor'' to him, to keep Summer fae from being able to overwhelm him.
** Harry does concede, however, that it could just be Chicago being Chicago.
** In ''Ghost Story'', there's heavy snow in Chicago in ''May''. This is because [[spoiler: Mab is in town]], specifically, [[spoiler: on Demonreach, keeping Harry's body alive.]]