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** Most common are the Peacock Wind of the reach, that'll cause vegetables aboard to sprout and grow with edible, but unnerving nodules, and the Candlewind that'll rot away your supplies and starve all aboard, not to mention occasionally has a reverse push on your vessel than it'd seem (as in, going against the wind is ''faster''). Both, naturally, cause your Terror to rise.
** The Storm That Speaks also occasionally pops up in certain places in The Reach. Think of a sentient, extremely lightning-prone hurricane with familiar whispers on its winds and with which you can strike up conversations if you're charismatic enough (or have brought gifts of bottled souls), and you've more or less got it. It's a weird entity even by this universe's standards.
** The Storm That Speaks also occasionally pops up in certain places in The Reach. Think of a sentient, extremely lightning-prone hurricane with familiar whispers on its winds and with which you can strike up conversations if you're charismatic enough (or have brought gifts of bottled souls), and you've more or less got it. It's a weird entity even by this universe's standards.
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** Most common are the Peacock Wind of the reach, Reach, that'll cause vegetables aboard to sprout and grow with edible, but unnerving nodules, and the Candlewind that'll rot away your supplies and starve all aboard, not to mention occasionally has a reverse push on your vessel than it'd seem (as in, going against the wind is ''faster''). Both, naturally, cause your Terror to rise.
** The Storm That Speaks also occasionally pops up in certain places inThe the Reach. Think of a sentient, extremely lightning-prone hurricane with familiar whispers on its winds and with which you can strike up conversations if you're charismatic enough (or have brought gifts of bottled souls), and you've more or less got it. It's a weird entity even by this universe's standards.
** The Storm That Speaks also occasionally pops up in certain places in
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* ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'', one often finds some harsh winds blowing through the High Wilderness that have strange effects on your vessel and its passengers/cargo.
** Most common are the Peacock Wind of the reach, that'll cause vegetables aboard to sprout and grow with edible, but unnerving nodules, and the Candlewind that'll rot away your supplies and starve all aboard, not to mention occasionally has a reverse push on your vessel than it'd seem (as in, going against the wind is ''faster''). Both, naturally, cause your Terror to rise.
** The Storm That Speaks also occasionally pops up in certain places in The Reach. Think of a sentient, extremely lightning-prone hurricane with familiar whispers on its winds and with which you can strike up conversations if you're charismatic enough (or have brought gifts of bottled souls), and you've more or less got it. It's a weird entity even by this universe's standards.
** Most common are the Peacock Wind of the reach, that'll cause vegetables aboard to sprout and grow with edible, but unnerving nodules, and the Candlewind that'll rot away your supplies and starve all aboard, not to mention occasionally has a reverse push on your vessel than it'd seem (as in, going against the wind is ''faster''). Both, naturally, cause your Terror to rise.
** The Storm That Speaks also occasionally pops up in certain places in The Reach. Think of a sentient, extremely lightning-prone hurricane with familiar whispers on its winds and with which you can strike up conversations if you're charismatic enough (or have brought gifts of bottled souls), and you've more or less got it. It's a weird entity even by this universe's standards.
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* ''ComicBook/TheMotherlessOven'' features ''knife storms'' and laughing gales of wind. All the weather is controlled by the Weather Clock, which is an actual living creature.
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* One of the major threats in ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' is a mysterious rainstorm called the “Timefall”, which looks almost exactly like normal rain but [[RapidAging rapidly ages]] anything it touches.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' universe, the continent of Australia is plagued by violent and massive mana storms.
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** While not as bad, the North American weather system is fairly messed up as well; it's speculated it's a lingering after-effect of the Great Ghost Dance.
** The continent of Australia is plagued by violent and massive mana storms.
** While not as bad, the North American weather system is fairly messed up as well; it's speculated it's a lingering after-effect of the Great Ghost Dance.
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* One version of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' had superheated rain that could literally melt the flesh off a dwarf's body. It was considered a GoodBadBug and, naturally, players found ways to [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=55001.0 weaponize it.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the weather system (which mostly simulates normal weather) will sometimes subject the player to radiation storms, which randomly cause radiation poisoning while they're outside.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the weather system (which mostly simulates normal weather) will sometimes subject the player to radiation storms, which randomly cause radiation poisoning while they're outside. This is due to the Glowing Sea, a massive patch of irradiated hell after the Chinese nuke detonated outside of Boston. The radiation storms are so powerful that they travel all the way up to Bar Harbor, Maine, a whopping 285 miles.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout New Vegas}}: Lonesome Road'' has The Divide and it's violent desert storms. Unlike the Glowing Sea's radiation storms (which are partially natural), [[spoiler: the scientists of Big Mountain used the place as a guinea pig for their experiments and caused the storms... that would later give birth to the Marked Men.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout New Vegas}}: Lonesome Road'' has The Divide and it's violent desert storms. Unlike the Glowing Sea's radiation storms (which are partially natural), [[spoiler: the scientists of Big Mountain used the place as a guinea pig for their experiments and caused the storms... that would later give birth to the Marked Men.]]
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* Titan, the largest of Saturn's moon where surface temperatures are around -180 °C, has methane rains that in the equatorial regions are thought to take the form of violent storms. The quirk comes when you notice that Titan's surface gravity is less than 1/6th of the Earth's one so the droplets would appear to fall in slow motion. All of this accompanied of how "clear skies" there means an always orange and murky sky.
* Weather on gas giant planets is strongly influenced by both the residual heat of the planet's formation (which can be a lot) and the depth of their atmospheres (thousands of kilometers)[[note]]Plus of course the energy provided by their daystars, especially in those that orbit very close to them[[/note]], all of this translating -in our Solar System at least-, into strong winds with speeds of several hundred kilometers per hour plus huge storms that may occupy a significant fraction of the planet's area.
* Weather on gas giant planets is strongly influenced by both the residual heat of the planet's formation (which can be a lot) and the depth of their atmospheres (thousands of kilometers)[[note]]Plus of course the energy provided by their daystars, especially in those that orbit very close to them[[/note]], all of this translating -in our Solar System at least-, into strong winds with speeds of several hundred kilometers per hour plus huge storms that may occupy a significant fraction of the planet's area.
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* Weather on gas giant planets is strongly influenced by both the residual heat of the planet's formation (which can be a lot) and the depth of their atmospheres (thousands of kilometers)[[note]]Plus of course the energy provided by their daystars, especially in those that orbit very close to them[[/note]], all of this translating-in -- in our Solar System at least-, least -- into strong winds with speeds of several hundred kilometers per hour plus huge storms that may occupy a significant fraction of the planet's area.
* Weather on gas giant planets is strongly influenced by both the residual heat of the planet's formation (which can be a lot) and the depth of their atmospheres (thousands of kilometers)[[note]]Plus of course the energy provided by their daystars, especially in those that orbit very close to them[[/note]], all of this translating
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* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2049 SCP-2049]] of the ''SCPFoundation'' is an anomalous weather report broadcast which describes and is followed by a variety of unusual weather. Examples include fog made of cotton candy, radiation storms, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin weather balloon downpours]], and a low-speed [[RazorWind monofilament tornado]].
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* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2049 SCP-2049]] of the ''SCPFoundation'' Wiki/SCPFoundation is an anomalous weather report broadcast which describes and is followed by a variety of unusual weather. Examples include fog made of cotton candy, radiation storms, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin weather balloon downpours]], and a low-speed [[RazorWind monofilament tornado]].
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* Creator/DrSeuss's ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' centres around a king who demands a new kind of weather of a group of wizards loosely attached to his court. [[GoneHorriblyRight He gets a rain of big balls of viscous goop called "oobleck" that rapidly floods the kingdom, trapping citizens and wildlife in it's stickiness]], as his long-suffering page boy Bartholomew Cubbins attempts to convince him to admit it was a mistake
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* Creator/DrSeuss's ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' ''Literature/BartholomewAndTheOobleck'' centres around a king who demands a new kind of weather of a group of wizards loosely attached to his court. [[GoneHorriblyRight He gets a rain of big balls of viscous goop called "oobleck" that rapidly floods the kingdom, trapping citizens and wildlife in it's stickiness]], as his long-suffering page boy Bartholomew Cubbins attempts to convince him to admit it was a mistake
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Stinky's Pumpkin" The City suffers from Torrential Rain, a drought and snow, as Stinky himself puts it "All in the same dang week!"
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* Titan, the largest of Saturn's moon where surface temperatures are around -180 °C, has methane rains that in the equatorial regions are thought to take the form of violent storms. The quirk comes when you notice that Titan's surface gravity is less than 1/6th of the Earth's one so the droplets would appear to fall in slow motion. All of this accompanied of how "clear skies" there means an always orange and murky sky.
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** Of course, this was just the end of the episode. The main plot was tornadoes (which is mundane in Kansas) that de-age anyone swept up in them (which isn't) and can be stopped by being tripped.
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* The island of Vvardenfell in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' is regularly covered in ashstorms, when the wind picks up the soot and dust from the Red Mountain volcano in the middle of the island. However, until the main quest of the game is resolved, the normal ashstorms are replaced with "blightstorms"--ashstorms that additionally infect everyone caught out in the open when they are hit with ThePlague.
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* The island of Vvardenfell in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' is regularly covered in ashstorms, when ash storms, where the wind picks up the soot and dust from the Red Mountain volcano in the middle of the island. However, until the main quest of the game is resolved, the normal ashstorms ash storms are replaced with "blightstorms"--ashstorms "blight storms" -- ash storms that additionally infect everyone caught out in the open when they are hit with ThePlague.the [[ThePlague Blight and Corprus]] diseases. ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation Though this cannot happen to the player character]]. It was [[DummiedOut supposed to be]] a gameplay mechanic, but had to be axed due to technical limitations.)
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* Warp storms in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' are disturbances over vast expanses of space that can engulf entire systems, cutting off sections for galaxy for centuries at a time. The Dark Eldar and forces of Chaos can exerce some measure of control.
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* Warp storms in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' are disturbances over vast expanses of space that can engulf entire systems, cutting off sections for galaxy for centuries at a time. The Dark Eldar and forces of Chaos can exerce some measure of control.
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* The WorldInTheSky of ''Literature/SkiesUnbroken'' has AlienSea of clouds, and some of them are phlebotinum-charged. There's also a [[PerpetualStorm storm that has lasted years without dissipating]].
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* ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' centers around perhaps one of the most ridiculous examples of this trope, a tornado... made of SHARKS.
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* ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' centers around perhaps one of the most ridiculous examples of this trope, a tornado... made of SHARKS.
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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=v67p1k1qcb42sit1fecovpq5 Peculiar Precipitation]]: Common in both {{Mordor}} and GaiasLament, the land has been so damaged that even the rain falling from the sky has become poisonous, radioactive, or even HollywoodAcid. Less dangerous examples can still be [[RainOfBlood disturbing]] or just plain weird.
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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' GameMod Thaumcraft 5, high flux in the [[BackgroundMagicField aura]] can manifest as a Taint Storm, a purple thunderhead that rains toxic "flux goo" and has a high chance to turn the area into TaintedLand.
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** In the original''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' ''VideoGame/Metroid1'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' it appears on Zebes. The varia suit is enough to protect against it.
** In the original
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RealLife has its share of dangerous or unusual weather, which can be integrated into the plot. Storms can do untold damage on land and sea, acid rain devastates the environment, sandstorms bring desert travel to a halt and heavy rain makes everyone feel a bit gloomy. But sometimes this isn't enough.
This trope covers bizarre and deadly forms of weather that wouldn't normally occur on Earth. This might be because it's caused by something in the setting (e.g. mountains that storms [[FlechetteStorm blow shards of volcanic glass down from]]). This typically helps world-build and make it more unique (it's hard to get more detailed than by mapping out the ecosystem). It can also be something clearly unnatural within the setting (e.g. aliens have turned all the water in the clouds into hydrogen peroxide in a fiendish plot to turn everyone into bleach blondes). This makes it clear that whatever caused it is extremely powerful (it's hard to get more dangerous than by messing with the ecosystem).
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* Phlebotinum Charged Storms: Huge sustained discharges of supernatural or mundane energy, including but not limited to PureEnergy from GreenRocks, WildMagic, tears in reality (leading to RealityWarping) or SoulPower. Often weakening the boundaries between AnotherDimension or a DarkWorld. They may also herald a FlyingDutchman.
* Weird Wind: A strong breeze (or full on gale) blows something around, either in the style of a sandstorm, or a twister, spreading the effects of GreenRocks and plagues far and wide or simply shredding everything it its path.
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=v67p1k1qcb42sit1fecovpq5 Peculiar Precipitation]]: Common in both {{Mordor}} and GaiasLament, the land has been so damaged that even the rain falling from the sky has become poisonous, radioactive, or even HollywoodAcid. Less dangerous examples can still be [[RainOfBlood disturbing]] or just plain weird.
* Strangeshine: Something in the sky (be it a WeirdMoon, a Sun, artificial satellite or mysterious comet) bombards the land with energy which can be deadly, [[ILoveNuclearPower mutagenic]] or just wake up the local {{Kaiju}} population.
Because of the hazardous nature of this weather, it often shows up as HostileWeather. Common on {{Death World}}s and anywhere else you can find EverythingTryingToKillYou.
Compare/contrast DeathFromAbove (things dropping from the sky due to artificial causes, like RainOfArrows or OrbitalBombardment), RainOfBlood (when it's literal), PerpetualStorm (an otherwise normal weather phenomenon which lasts indefinitely), and EmpathicEnvironment where the weather reflects the fact that something dramatic is happening (the two can overlap, however, when the empathic weather is ''also'' bizarre weather).
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* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' experiences Madness Storms near the source of the realm's magic. These usually result in the temporary enhancement or derangement of existing magic and perceptions, but stronger storms can cause temporary WorldOfChaos conditions in the area as the line between hallucination, illusion, and reality blurs.
*''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
** Highstorms, solid walls of wind and water sweeping from east to west that scour away any trace of soil, kill anyone caught unprotected, and carry with them the godlike spren who charges exposed gems with Stormlight. They aren't actually separate storms at all, but a single storm that constantly circles the globe.
**[[spoiler:In the second book, the desperate Parshendi unleash the Everstorm, an even nastier highstorm that travels in the opposite direction and destroys the very ground when the two collide.]]
*''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}'' has a rare green storm that picks up any vessel that drives into it and deposits them in a parallel world. ''Walker'' and ''Mahan'' ran into one while trying to escape the ''Amagi''. [[spoiler: It's summoned by the presence of large masses of metal on the sea.]]
*In ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'', a favorite tactic of [[GodIsEvil Yahweh's]] is to strengthen and direct Earthly storms by funneling hot air into them through Heavengates.
*In ''Literature/DarthBane: Path of Destruction'', Bane encourages the Sith fighting on Ruusan to summon a Force-powered storm that levels the forest the Republic forces were occupying. The combination of the destruction and the miasma of evil energy also drives the formerly peaceful native "bouncers" insane, turning them from bringers of comfort to feared and pitied psychic scourges.
-->'''Darth Bane:''' Now look at that map and think like a Sith. Don't just fight in the forests...''destroy the forests!''
* ''The Mage Storm'' Trilogy in Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series documents the after effects of the Cataclysm. The most noticeable one is two magical storms wreaking havoc on the country side. Where they interact people spot circles of destruction, magical corruption that warps and changes people and animals, and other strange magical phenomena.
* In Creator/AlanGarner's novel ''Literature/TheWeirdstoneOfBrisingamen'', the climactic action takes place in a world where "normal" rural Cheshire in England overlaps with the older Faerie world. Even though it is early spring, the Mara, a sort of ice troll, bring the "fimbulwinter" with them, seeking to trap the heroes in the open: the world is beset with a magically-generated blizzard and seasonally unrealistic snow, ice and subzero temperature. [[note]]Garner originally set the books in the very early 1960's, when Britain had a series of incredibly foul, cold, icy, winters. For ''Literature/{{Boneland}}'', the final book in the Alderley trilogy, he appears to have RetConned the action of ''Brisingamen'' to the spring of 1969 when a very late unseasonal winter surge gripped Northern Europe right into early April. [[/note]]
* ''The Magical Monarch of Mo'', by Creator/LFrankBaum of Literature/LandOfOz fame, is about a {{Cloudcuckooland}} where it rains lemonade and snows popcorn, "and the lightning in the sky resembles the most beautiful fireworks; and the thunder is usually a chorus from the opera of ''[[Theatre/{{Tannhaeuser}} Tannhauser]]''." The land, rain, and snow all return in ''The Scarecrow of Oz''.
* In ''Literature/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', ordinary weather in Chewanswallow rains food and drink, sparing the land from many of the world's problems and creating others. Unfortunately, Chewanswallow eventually becomes uninhabitable after the falling food starts [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever getting bigger and bigger]].
* Creator/DrSeuss's ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' centres around a king who demands a new kind of weather of a group of wizards loosely attached to his court. [[GoneHorriblyRight He gets a rain of big balls of viscous goop called "oobleck" that rapidly floods the kingdom, trapping citizens and wildlife in it's stickiness]], as his long-suffering page boy Bartholomew Cubbins attempts to convince him to admit it was a mistake
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Module I12 ''Egg of the Phoenix''. While the {{PC}}s are traveling from the Crypts of Empyrea back to Nimbortan they will encounter a brief bizarre storm. It starts with a gale force wind, continues with rain that is almost boiling hot, then changes to razor-sharp sleet that slices exposed flesh and clothing to ribbons. Not to mention HostileWeather while they take the egg back.
** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' supplement [=FR5=] ''The Savage Frontier''. In the High Forest, Wizard Weather can include red snow ("that tastes like blood"), hot rain ("which boils the flesh"), blizzards in summer, exotic (invisible, multi-colored, huge, explosive, glowing and/or black) hailstones, dense fog (with evil creatures lurking within), razor-sharp sleet ("draws blood and scores metal"), black acidic rain, and desert-like blazing heat.
* SPI's ''TabletopGame/DragonQuest'' supplement ''The Enchanted Wood''. Unnatural weather in the Enchanted Woods includes a variety of damage-causing hail (black, explosive, gemstone, glowing, huge, and invisible), a dense fog that manifests an evil strangling mist, razor sleet that cuts up any creature it hits, black rain that corrodes anything it touches (including living creatures) like acid, and a blazing sun that causes exhaustion and dehydration.
* Warp storms in ''Franchise/Warhammer40K'' are disturbances over vast expanses of space that can engulf entire systems, cutting off sections for galaxy for centuries at a time. The Dark Eldar and forces of Chaos can exerce some measure of control.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' universe, the continent of Australia is plagued by violent and massive mana storms.
[[AC: Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' Caesar's wife Calpurnia makes note of several portents which indicate bad things happening, including:
-->Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,
-->In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
-->Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol
[[AC: VideoGames]]
* In ''Franchise/SuperMetroid'', acid rain is a recurring hazard on the surface areas of planets:
** In the original ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' it appears on Zebes. The varia suit is enough to protect against it.
** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', it appears on the Space Pirate Homeworld. Unlike the first game, you need a specific acid-proof "hazard shield" item to protect Samus from it. The {{Space Pirate}}s themselves seem immune to it.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the weather system (which mostly simulates normal weather) will sometimes subject the player to radiation storms, which randomly cause radiation poisoning while they're outside.
* The "teleport storm" at the start of ''VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII'' that [[BagOfSpilling swaps a whole bunch of your most useful items with random junk]] and causes Iolo to vanish qualifies.
* The island of Vvardenfell in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' is regularly covered in ashstorms, when the wind picks up the soot and dust from the Red Mountain volcano in the middle of the island. However, until the main quest of the game is resolved, the normal ashstorms are replaced with "blightstorms"--ashstorms that additionally infect everyone caught out in the open when they hit with ThePlague.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' and its episodes occasionally make reference to "Portal Storms" occuring in the early days of the AlienInvasion, during which tears in reality temporarily link Earth with the plane of Xen at random places. This results in widespread infrastructure damage due to {{Telefrag}}ging and {{Portal Cut}}ting, and also generates massive mundane thunderstorms as an exotic alien atmosphere materializes, interacts, and reacts with Earth's atmosphere.
* WarcraftIII:
** This exchange in the final level of the orc campaign:
--> '''Jaina:''' Thrall, the sky is... burning!
--> '''Thrall:''' Blessed ancestors... This is no natural storm!
::: Shortly followed by giant burning demons attacking your base from all sides in addition to the fel orcs.
** In the expansion, the final level of the Blood Elf campaign has what looks like a firestorm rapidly approaching the just-captured Black Citadel, only to reveal itself as Illidan's pissed-off boss Kil'jaeden, who's approximately twice the size of the battlements.
* One version of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' had superheated rain that could literally melt the flesh off a dwarf's body. It was considered a GoodBadBug and, naturally, players found ways to [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=55001.0 weaponize it.]]
*''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'': Planet Mira has weather patterns similar to Earth's, including rain and sandstorms. But its harsher environments have unusual weather phenomena that are unique to their respective continents. Such as: Oblivia's electromagnetic storms, Sylvalum's spore clouds, and Calduros' [[LethalLavaLand brimstone rain.]]
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' GameMod Thaumcraft 5, high flux in the [[BackgroundMagicField aura]] can manifest as a Taint Storm, a purple thunderhead that rains toxic "flux goo" and has a high chance to turn the area into TaintedLand.
[[AC: WebOriginal]]
* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2049 SCP-2049]] of the ''SCPFoundation'' is an anomalous weather report broadcast which describes and is followed by a variety of unusual weather. Examples include fog made of cotton candy, radiation storms, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin weather balloon downpours]], and a low-speed [[RazorWind monofilament tornado]].
[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the {{Flashback}} episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E13AndMaggieMakesThree "And Maggie Makes Three"]] Homer is going back to the Nuclear Plant to get his old job back, having to give up his dream job of working in a bowling alley, in order to support his now five member family. When he left the bowling alley they gave him a satin jacket as a souvenir. As he trudges towards the plant an acid rain shower hits him, disintegrating the jacket but leaving everything else untouched.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''. "Little Muriel" ends with a sudden tidal wave washing over Nowhere, which is entirely illogical, considering Nowhere is in Kansas, nowhere near any body of water large enough to cause a tidal wave to surge over the entire town. Courage even lampshades this by remark, "[[AsideComment Crazy weather we've been having, huh?]]"
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RealLife has its share of dangerous or unusual weather, which can be integrated into the plot. Storms can do untold damage on land and sea, acid rain devastates the environment, sandstorms bring desert travel to a halt and heavy rain makes everyone feel a bit gloomy. But sometimes this isn't enough.
This trope covers bizarre and deadly forms of weather that wouldn't normally occur on Earth. This might be because it's caused by something in the setting (e.g. mountains that storms [[FlechetteStorm blow shards of volcanic glass down from]]). This typically helps world-build and make it more unique (it's hard to get more detailed than by mapping out the ecosystem). It can also be something clearly unnatural within the setting (e.g. aliens have turned all the water in the clouds into hydrogen peroxide in a fiendish plot to turn everyone into bleach blondes). This makes it clear that whatever caused it is extremely powerful (it's hard to get more dangerous than by messing with the ecosystem).
Some specific types can include:
* Phlebotinum Charged Storms: Huge sustained discharges of supernatural or mundane energy, including but not limited to PureEnergy from GreenRocks, WildMagic, tears in reality (leading to RealityWarping) or SoulPower. Often weakening the boundaries between AnotherDimension or a DarkWorld. They may also herald a FlyingDutchman.
* Weird Wind: A strong breeze (or full on gale) blows something around, either in the style of a sandstorm, or a twister, spreading the effects of GreenRocks and plagues far and wide or simply shredding everything it its path.
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=v67p1k1qcb42sit1fecovpq5 Peculiar Precipitation]]: Common in both {{Mordor}} and GaiasLament, the land has been so damaged that even the rain falling from the sky has become poisonous, radioactive, or even HollywoodAcid. Less dangerous examples can still be [[RainOfBlood disturbing]] or just plain weird.
* Strangeshine: Something in the sky (be it a WeirdMoon, a Sun, artificial satellite or mysterious comet) bombards the land with energy which can be deadly, [[ILoveNuclearPower mutagenic]] or just wake up the local {{Kaiju}} population.
Because of the hazardous nature of this weather, it often shows up as HostileWeather. Common on {{Death World}}s and anywhere else you can find EverythingTryingToKillYou.
Compare/contrast DeathFromAbove (things dropping from the sky due to artificial causes, like RainOfArrows or OrbitalBombardment), RainOfBlood (when it's literal), PerpetualStorm (an otherwise normal weather phenomenon which lasts indefinitely), and EmpathicEnvironment where the weather reflects the fact that something dramatic is happening (the two can overlap, however, when the empathic weather is ''also'' bizarre weather).
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!!Examples:
[[AC: Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' experiences Madness Storms near the source of the realm's magic. These usually result in the temporary enhancement or derangement of existing magic and perceptions, but stronger storms can cause temporary WorldOfChaos conditions in the area as the line between hallucination, illusion, and reality blurs.
*''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
** Highstorms, solid walls of wind and water sweeping from east to west that scour away any trace of soil, kill anyone caught unprotected, and carry with them the godlike spren who charges exposed gems with Stormlight. They aren't actually separate storms at all, but a single storm that constantly circles the globe.
**[[spoiler:In the second book, the desperate Parshendi unleash the Everstorm, an even nastier highstorm that travels in the opposite direction and destroys the very ground when the two collide.]]
*''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}'' has a rare green storm that picks up any vessel that drives into it and deposits them in a parallel world. ''Walker'' and ''Mahan'' ran into one while trying to escape the ''Amagi''. [[spoiler: It's summoned by the presence of large masses of metal on the sea.]]
*In ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'', a favorite tactic of [[GodIsEvil Yahweh's]] is to strengthen and direct Earthly storms by funneling hot air into them through Heavengates.
*In ''Literature/DarthBane: Path of Destruction'', Bane encourages the Sith fighting on Ruusan to summon a Force-powered storm that levels the forest the Republic forces were occupying. The combination of the destruction and the miasma of evil energy also drives the formerly peaceful native "bouncers" insane, turning them from bringers of comfort to feared and pitied psychic scourges.
-->'''Darth Bane:''' Now look at that map and think like a Sith. Don't just fight in the forests...''destroy the forests!''
* ''The Mage Storm'' Trilogy in Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series documents the after effects of the Cataclysm. The most noticeable one is two magical storms wreaking havoc on the country side. Where they interact people spot circles of destruction, magical corruption that warps and changes people and animals, and other strange magical phenomena.
* In Creator/AlanGarner's novel ''Literature/TheWeirdstoneOfBrisingamen'', the climactic action takes place in a world where "normal" rural Cheshire in England overlaps with the older Faerie world. Even though it is early spring, the Mara, a sort of ice troll, bring the "fimbulwinter" with them, seeking to trap the heroes in the open: the world is beset with a magically-generated blizzard and seasonally unrealistic snow, ice and subzero temperature. [[note]]Garner originally set the books in the very early 1960's, when Britain had a series of incredibly foul, cold, icy, winters. For ''Literature/{{Boneland}}'', the final book in the Alderley trilogy, he appears to have RetConned the action of ''Brisingamen'' to the spring of 1969 when a very late unseasonal winter surge gripped Northern Europe right into early April. [[/note]]
* ''The Magical Monarch of Mo'', by Creator/LFrankBaum of Literature/LandOfOz fame, is about a {{Cloudcuckooland}} where it rains lemonade and snows popcorn, "and the lightning in the sky resembles the most beautiful fireworks; and the thunder is usually a chorus from the opera of ''[[Theatre/{{Tannhaeuser}} Tannhauser]]''." The land, rain, and snow all return in ''The Scarecrow of Oz''.
* In ''Literature/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', ordinary weather in Chewanswallow rains food and drink, sparing the land from many of the world's problems and creating others. Unfortunately, Chewanswallow eventually becomes uninhabitable after the falling food starts [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever getting bigger and bigger]].
* Creator/DrSeuss's ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck'' centres around a king who demands a new kind of weather of a group of wizards loosely attached to his court. [[GoneHorriblyRight He gets a rain of big balls of viscous goop called "oobleck" that rapidly floods the kingdom, trapping citizens and wildlife in it's stickiness]], as his long-suffering page boy Bartholomew Cubbins attempts to convince him to admit it was a mistake
[[AC: Film]]
* "Film/Sharknado" centers around perhaps one of the most ridiculous examples of this trope, a tornado... made of SHARKS.
[[AC: TabletopGames]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Module I12 ''Egg of the Phoenix''. While the {{PC}}s are traveling from the Crypts of Empyrea back to Nimbortan they will encounter a brief bizarre storm. It starts with a gale force wind, continues with rain that is almost boiling hot, then changes to razor-sharp sleet that slices exposed flesh and clothing to ribbons. Not to mention HostileWeather while they take the egg back.
** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' supplement [=FR5=] ''The Savage Frontier''. In the High Forest, Wizard Weather can include red snow ("that tastes like blood"), hot rain ("which boils the flesh"), blizzards in summer, exotic (invisible, multi-colored, huge, explosive, glowing and/or black) hailstones, dense fog (with evil creatures lurking within), razor-sharp sleet ("draws blood and scores metal"), black acidic rain, and desert-like blazing heat.
* SPI's ''TabletopGame/DragonQuest'' supplement ''The Enchanted Wood''. Unnatural weather in the Enchanted Woods includes a variety of damage-causing hail (black, explosive, gemstone, glowing, huge, and invisible), a dense fog that manifests an evil strangling mist, razor sleet that cuts up any creature it hits, black rain that corrodes anything it touches (including living creatures) like acid, and a blazing sun that causes exhaustion and dehydration.
* Warp storms in ''Franchise/Warhammer40K'' are disturbances over vast expanses of space that can engulf entire systems, cutting off sections for galaxy for centuries at a time. The Dark Eldar and forces of Chaos can exerce some measure of control.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' universe, the continent of Australia is plagued by violent and massive mana storms.
[[AC: Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' Caesar's wife Calpurnia makes note of several portents which indicate bad things happening, including:
-->Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,
-->In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
-->Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol
[[AC: VideoGames]]
* In ''Franchise/SuperMetroid'', acid rain is a recurring hazard on the surface areas of planets:
** In the original ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' it appears on Zebes. The varia suit is enough to protect against it.
** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', it appears on the Space Pirate Homeworld. Unlike the first game, you need a specific acid-proof "hazard shield" item to protect Samus from it. The {{Space Pirate}}s themselves seem immune to it.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the weather system (which mostly simulates normal weather) will sometimes subject the player to radiation storms, which randomly cause radiation poisoning while they're outside.
* The "teleport storm" at the start of ''VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII'' that [[BagOfSpilling swaps a whole bunch of your most useful items with random junk]] and causes Iolo to vanish qualifies.
* The island of Vvardenfell in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' is regularly covered in ashstorms, when the wind picks up the soot and dust from the Red Mountain volcano in the middle of the island. However, until the main quest of the game is resolved, the normal ashstorms are replaced with "blightstorms"--ashstorms that additionally infect everyone caught out in the open when they hit with ThePlague.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' and its episodes occasionally make reference to "Portal Storms" occuring in the early days of the AlienInvasion, during which tears in reality temporarily link Earth with the plane of Xen at random places. This results in widespread infrastructure damage due to {{Telefrag}}ging and {{Portal Cut}}ting, and also generates massive mundane thunderstorms as an exotic alien atmosphere materializes, interacts, and reacts with Earth's atmosphere.
* WarcraftIII:
** This exchange in the final level of the orc campaign:
--> '''Jaina:''' Thrall, the sky is... burning!
--> '''Thrall:''' Blessed ancestors... This is no natural storm!
::: Shortly followed by giant burning demons attacking your base from all sides in addition to the fel orcs.
** In the expansion, the final level of the Blood Elf campaign has what looks like a firestorm rapidly approaching the just-captured Black Citadel, only to reveal itself as Illidan's pissed-off boss Kil'jaeden, who's approximately twice the size of the battlements.
* One version of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' had superheated rain that could literally melt the flesh off a dwarf's body. It was considered a GoodBadBug and, naturally, players found ways to [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=55001.0 weaponize it.]]
*''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'': Planet Mira has weather patterns similar to Earth's, including rain and sandstorms. But its harsher environments have unusual weather phenomena that are unique to their respective continents. Such as: Oblivia's electromagnetic storms, Sylvalum's spore clouds, and Calduros' [[LethalLavaLand brimstone rain.]]
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' GameMod Thaumcraft 5, high flux in the [[BackgroundMagicField aura]] can manifest as a Taint Storm, a purple thunderhead that rains toxic "flux goo" and has a high chance to turn the area into TaintedLand.
[[AC: WebOriginal]]
* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2049 SCP-2049]] of the ''SCPFoundation'' is an anomalous weather report broadcast which describes and is followed by a variety of unusual weather. Examples include fog made of cotton candy, radiation storms, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin weather balloon downpours]], and a low-speed [[RazorWind monofilament tornado]].
[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the {{Flashback}} episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E13AndMaggieMakesThree "And Maggie Makes Three"]] Homer is going back to the Nuclear Plant to get his old job back, having to give up his dream job of working in a bowling alley, in order to support his now five member family. When he left the bowling alley they gave him a satin jacket as a souvenir. As he trudges towards the plant an acid rain shower hits him, disintegrating the jacket but leaving everything else untouched.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''. "Little Muriel" ends with a sudden tidal wave washing over Nowhere, which is entirely illogical, considering Nowhere is in Kansas, nowhere near any body of water large enough to cause a tidal wave to surge over the entire town. Courage even lampshades this by remark, "[[AsideComment Crazy weather we've been having, huh?]]"
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