History Main / WeirdWeather

* ''Literature/{{Siren}}'': Every time the sirens kill their victims, an unforecasted heavy storm forms over Winter Harbor and dissipates just as suddenly. Meteorologists are baffled by the number of mysterious storms, and by the fact that they never occur over any town in the area besides Winter Harbor.

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* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIIIReignOfChaos'':
** In the final level of the orc campaign, the characters are startled by the sky filling with fire before giant burning demons attacking your base from all sides in addition to the fel orcs.

** ''VideoGame/WarcraftIIITheFrozenThrone'': 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.

* The exoplanet [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_189733_b HD 189733 b]], a planet with a similar size to Jupiter, is said to have a beautiful blue hue, looking something like Uranus or Neptune, but with a far more intense colour. Make no mistake, however - HD 189733 b is ''anything'' but hospitable. Orbiting its star at an incredibly close range, HD 189733 b is both incredibly hot and incredibly hostile, its atmosphere agitated both by the intense heat of its parent star and the planet's remarkable orbital speed of 341,000 mph, or 152 kilometres per second, generating the strongest wind speeds ever found on any planet, a whopping 8,700 km/h... but that's not all! HD 189733 b's beautiful colour hides a particularly interesting, if terrifying secret; the planet's atmosphere is laden with silica. In other words, the atmosphere is full of glass. Heated to an incredible temperature by the relentless furnace-like conditions, this glass melts, condensing into shards hurtling through the air. Anyone foolish enough to enter HD 189733 b's atmosphere would be doomed, either to incineration or being sliced into a million pieces, then promptly minced into a fine red mist by the screaming winds.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries''" As Earth is becoming progressively more Tiberium-ridden, the weather makes a real turn for the worse with rampant ion storms and Tiberium shard downpours.

* ''Psychlone'' is a horror novel by Creator/GregBear involving a psychic tornado created by the UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Meet the Pegasus'' at one point features technicolor rain and lightning that forms over the SolidClouds the goats stand on, each drop and bolt a different color. One of the rain droplets forms a tree that the goats pull out of the clouds, revealing a bunch of beach items that Slowy decides would be good to build "sand" castles in the sky.

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* The [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 HL2]] [[GameMod mod-story]] "G-String" in its latest redone version features sections where [[TheProtagonist Myo]] must use whatever routes literally have cover shielding her from '''very deadly''' acid rain that is capable of quickly melting both her suit protection power and health, requiring a bit of exploring to find the proper route that provides ample cover against said acid rain whilst progressing, as well as traversing interior areas that are flooded with the caustic substance as well.
* ''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.

* ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'': One of the major threats is a mysterious rainstorm called the "Timefall", which looks almost exactly like normal rain but [[RapidAging rapidly ages]] anything it touches.

* The [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 HL2]] [[GameMod mod-story]] "G-String" in its latest redone version features sections where [[TheProtagonist Myo]] must use whatever routes literally have cover shielding her from '''very deadly''' acid rain that is capable of quickly melting both her suit protection power and health, requiring a bit of exploring to find the proper route that provides ample cover against said acid rain whilst progressing, as well as traverse interior areas that are flooded with the caustic substance as well.

* The [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 HL2]] [[GameMod mod-story]] "G-String" in its latest redone version features sections where [[TheProtagonist Myo]] must use whatever routes literally have cover shielding her from '''very deadly''' acid rain that is capable of quickly melting both her suit protection power and health, requiring a bit of exploring to find the proper route that provides ample cover against said acid rain whilst progressing.

* The [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 HL2]] [[GameMod mod-story]] in its latest redone version features sections where [[TheProtagonist Myo]] must use whatever routes literally have cover shielding her from '''very deadly''' acid rain that is capable of quickly melting both her suit protection power and health, requiring a bit of exploring to find the proper route that provides ample cover against said acid rain whilst progressing.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTals2017'': In "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S3E1ChallengeOfTheSeniorJuniorWoodchucks Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks]]", the rain on the island is electrified and zaps with every drop.

* ''VideoGame/{{Blaseball}}'' has been no stranger to absurd weather conditions ever since the Forbidden Book was opened at the end of its first season, with Solar Eclipses, Black Holes, ''Sun 2,'' "lots of birds," storms comprised entirely of peanuts, roster-shuffling Reverb, [[TimeCrash Feedback]], [[RainOfBlood Bloodrain]], [[RuleOfThree three different varieties of coffee rain]], Flooding, and even... [[MundaneMadeAwesome Salmon.]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes. All of that can seriously happen.]]

* In the world of ''Manga/OnePiece'', the weather on the Grand Line is notoriously unpredictable; clear skies can suddenly become torrential without warning and clear up just as quickly as they start. On some occasions they experience stuff like candy rain. Then the weather of the New World is shown. Notable phenomena include rain and hail with droplets ''bigger than ships'', a literal wall of snowfall, an island with perpetual lightning storms, giant fissures opening and closing in the middle of the ocean and on one occasion an apparent ''black hole'' appearing in the sky above.

* The ''[[Film/Slipstream1989 Slipstream]]'' (1989) is a permanent world-encircling wind, like the jetstream but at low level, affecting the environment and culture of an AfterTheEnd future. Cults worship the wind, people live in houses dug into cliffs, and traders travel via balloons and light aircraft.

* In ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'', the greatest danger on the eponymous alien planet is "Thread", a type of spore that eats any organic matter it touches. Whenever a neighbouring planet orbits through Pern's sky, Thread falls, ravaging all farms and forests in its path. There is ''nothing'' the Pernese won't do to escape it, including moving continents and genetically engineering an entire species (dragons, whose fiery breath is one of few things that can destroy it).

* In ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' Caesar's wife Calpurnia makes note of several portents which indicate bad things happening, including:

* As Earth is becoming progressively more Tiberium-ridden in the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries'' the weather makes a real turn for the worse with rampant ion storms and Tiberium shard downpours.

* In ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'', acid rain is a recurring hazard on the surface areas of planets:
** 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 ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', more acid rain appears on the Space Pirate Homeworld. Unlike other games, you need a specific acid-proof "hazard shield" item to protect Samus from it. Enemies however seem immune to the rain.
* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', 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.]]
* 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 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 ash storms are replaced with "blight storms" -- ash storms that additionally infect everyone caught out in the open when they are hit with 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.)
* ''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.
* At the end of Friday in ''VideoGame/Postal2'', when all Dude's errands are finished (or are they?) it literally starts raining cats. Not dogs though so no VisualPun for us.
* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', "sparksnow" on Vertumna is like the Earth kind of snow, except that it's blue, not cold, and mildly acidic. Good for sculpting, though.
* ''VideoGame/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 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.]] Mostly by forcing Goblins to go through it (as they try to find the fastest way into your fortress) and sending male cats to eat vermin remains to have all of their fat melt out of their bodies and kill them, thereby removing two problems (goblins attacking and "[[http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Catsplosion catsplotion]]") at once and letting your dorfs profit off of their deaths.

* ''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 ''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 Tainted Land.
* 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.
* In ''VideoGame/SunlessSeas'', the shores off the Elder Continent are intermittently troubled by the Waxwinds, carrying molten wax from somewhere closer to the Mountain of Light. It prevents your ship from using its full speed and is described as scarring your skin, but fortunately doesn't cause any serious damage; ''un''fortunately, it also doesn't impede [[GoddamnedBats Blue Prophets]] from swarming your crew.
* In ''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.
** Oh and also the Peacock Wind may be [[spoiler: the soul of a dead sun]].
** 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.
* In ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' there's weather like 'Energy', 'Radiation' and 'Lava Flow' that are not weather at all. There's even weather like '??--[[/@#,,' in glitch areas.

* ''VideoGame/{{Blaseball}}'' has been no stranger to absurd weather conditions ever since the Forbidden Book was opened at the end of its first season, with Solar Eclipses, Black Holes, ''Sun 2,'' "lots of birds," storms comprised entirely of peanuts, roster-shuffling Reverb, [[TimeCrash Feedback]], [[RainOfBlood Bloodrain]], [[RuleOfThree three different varieties of coffee rain]], Flooding, and even... [[MundaneMadeAwesome Salmon.]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes. All of that can seriously happen.]]

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2049 SCP-2049]] of the Website/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]].
* 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]].

* ''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?]]"
** 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.
* 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!"
* The Boiling Isles in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' doesn't have weather, they have ''plagues''. Gorenadoes, painbows (turns you inside out if you look at them) and boiling rain are just a few examples.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'': The WeatherManipulation machine seen in "Unfair Weather" can create food-based storms alongside regular weather; all you need to do is dump the desired food into the machine, and a cloud will appear and start dropping the food in question.

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2049 SCP-2049]] of the 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]].

* As Earth is becoming progressively more Tiberium-ridden in the ''Franchise/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries'' the weather makes a real turn for the worse with rampant ion storms and Tiberium shard downpours.

* As Earth is becoming progressively more Tiberium-ridden in the ''Franchise/CommandAndConquecTiberianSeries'' the weather makes a real turn for the worse with rampant ion storms and Tiberium shard downpours.