History Main / WeirdWeather

* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', "snow" on Vertumnus is like the Earth kind, except that it's blue and not cold. Good for sculpting, though.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' has Weather Report. His Stand which is also named Weather Report, can [[WeatherManipulation control the weather]] to his liking. This results in situations such as a storm raining poisonous frogs and eventually taking it to the extreme by creating rainbows [[ItMakesSenseInContext that implant subliminal messages into people that make them think they're snails and then they being to transform into snails]].

* 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.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' has Weather Report. His Stand which is also named Weather Report, can [[WeatherManipulation control the weather]] to his liking. This results in situations such as a storm raining poisonous frogs and eventually taking it UpToEleven by creating rainbows [[ItMakesSenseInContext that implant subliminal messages into people that make them think they're snails and then they being to transform into snails]].

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* ''Machinima/ZsdavAdventures'': In ''Bajos utazók: Agzt pálinka robotai'' (''Problematic travelers: Agzt's palinka robots''), the characters crashland on a planet where palinka rains instead of water.
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* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' has an event called an "emission" or a "blowout", the single most dangerous thing about the Zone. When one happens, after a bit of low droning sounds coming from nowhere, the sky turns blood-red, weird cloud formations suddenly take shape, lightning starts flashing chaotically, and the ground starts rumbling as massive shockwaves of energy roll across the land. This continues for several minutes, and anyone who didn't manage to find shelter in time instantly drops dead. In the original ''Shadow of Chernobyl'', only one happens as a scripted event near the game's climax. In ''Clear Sky'' and ''Call of Pripyat'', however, they happen at random.

* ''Machinima/ZsdavAdventures'': In ''Bajos utazók: Agzt pálinka robotai'' (''Problematic travelers: Agzt's brandy robots''), the characters crashland on a planet where brandy rains instead of water.

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* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'': ''The Mage Storm'' trilogy 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.

** 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.

* It has been proposed that in the far future the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_greenhouse_effect#Distant_future greenhouse effect]] caused by the increased Sun's luminosity, will produce thunderstorms far more powerful than the present ones as the oceans boil away and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_trap_(astronomy)#Atmospheric_Cold-traps cold trap]] that retains water vapor in the lower atmosphere ceases to work.

* ''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.]]

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' GameMod ''VideoGame/{{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.

* VideoGame/CTGPRevolution has Item Rain as a game mode, in which items fall from the sky. If All Items can Land is on, then Bullet Bills and [[LightningCanDoAnything Lightning items]] can fall, as well as [[ActionBomb Bobombs]] and land-mine Blue Shells.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' acid rain appears on the surface of Zebes. This rain isn't actually dangerous enough to hurt you.

** In the original ''VideoGame/Metroid1'' 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.

* ''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

* ''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/TheBrightestShadow: Both clouds and sunlight are influenced by the Legend, both influencing the people below and leading to strange phenomena like the sun seeming to stand still in the sky.

** [[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.]]
** In [[Literature/RhythmOfWar the fourth book]], we find out that Shadesmar has its own weather patterns, which are nothing like any weather in the Physical. Examples include "crystalline" weather (which makes the Shadesmar equivalent of plants grow almost fast enough to see), and weather patterns that make certain spren more energetic or lethargic.
* ''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 ''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

* VideoGame/CTGPRevolution has Item Rain as a game mode, in which items fall from the sky. If All Items can Land is on, then Bullet Bills and [[Lightning LightningCanDoAnything]] can fall, as well as [[ActionBomb Bobombs]] and land-mine Blue Shells.

* CTGPRevolution has Item Rain as a game mode, in which items fall from the sky. If All Items can Land is on, then [[DeuxExMachina Bullet Bills]] and [[Lightning|CanDoAnything]] can fall, as well as [[ActionBomb Bobombs]] and land-mine Blue Shells.