Tropes to do with the atmosphere and weather, be it artificial or natural.
A sub-index of Tropes of Nature.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Against the Setting Sun: Declaring determination while facing the sunset.
- Always Night: The work takes place always at night.
- Artificial Outdoors Display: The "outdoors" is artificial.
- Atmosphere Abuse: Trying to kill Earth's population by messing with or getting rid of the atmosphere.
- Battle in the Rain: Fighting in the rain.
- Born During a Storm: A storm punctuates a baby's birth.
- Big Storm Episode: An episode focusing on a big storm.
- Bizarre Seasons: The seasons change randomly or don't work the way ours do.
- British Weather: A Useful Notes page for the weather in Great Britain.
- Carcass Sleeping Bag: Sleeping inside a dead animal.
- Catch Your Death of Cold: The weather makes you catch a cold.
- Caught in the Rain: Alice and Bob get caught in the rain, leading to them having sex or kissing while sheltering.
- Climactic Volcano Backdrop: Fighting in a volcano.
- Cold Snap: It's cold for an episode.
- Cue the Rain: It rains at an inappropriate (or sometimes appropriate) moment.
- Cue the Sun: The sun comes out conveniently.
- Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: It's always cloudy or rainy in Cyberpunk settings.
- Deadly Dust Storm: Dust storms are really bad.
- Death's Hourglass: An actual clock that counts down until someone dies.
- Defog of War: Defogging the Fog of War.
- Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Tornadoes are safe as long as you don't touch the funnel.
- Dramatic Thunder: Thunder happens during a scary scene.
- Dramatic Wind: Gusts of wind Played for Drama.
- Empathic Environment: The weather responds to mood.
- Endless Daytime: The sun doesn't set.
- Endless Winter: Winter that lasts forever or for a very long time.
- Exposed to the Elements: Characters are underdressed for cold weather, but this is ignored.
- Fear of Thunder: Character is scared of thunderstorms.
- Fertile Feet: When a character takes a step, flowers grow.
- Fisher King: What happens to the ruler happens to their land.
- First Snow: Character experiences snow for the first time.
- A Foggy Day in London Town: It's always foggy in London.
- Fog of Doom: Someone dies or is in danger of dying in the fog.
- Fog of War: You can't see a game map due to the fog.
- Frozen Body Fluids: A character's body fluids freeze mid-stream to show how ridiculously cold a place is.
- Funnel Cloud Journey: Areas that take place inside a tornado.
- Giant Wall of Watery Doom: A tsunami.
- Grave Clouds: It's cloudy at a cemetery.
- Gray Rain of Depression: It's rainy during a sad scene.
- Happy Rain: It rains on a happy scene.
- Heat Wave: A very hot day.
- Holiday-Appropriate Weather: It's always appropriate weather for a holiday.
- Hope Sprouts Eternal: Seedlings are inspiring.
- Hostile Terraforming: Making a planet suitable for aliens, but in the process making it unsuitable for the natives.
- Hostile Weather: The weather is actively antagonistic towards the characters, whether due to improbable coincidence, having an actual mind of its own, or artificial manipulation.
- Hot Wind: Wind blows the hair of a character someone else is sexually attracted to.
- Improvised Umbrella: Using something else as an umbrella.
- Indian Summer: Summer lasts into autumn.
- Instant Thunder: Thunder and lightning at the same time.
- It Always Rains at Funerals: Rain during a funeral.
- It's Always Sunny at Funerals: Sun at a funeral.
- It's Always Sunny in Miami: Miami is always shown to be sunny or when the weather in a work is static except in extreme situations.
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The story begins with a dark and stormy night.
- Lightning Reveal: Lightning reveals something in the dark.
- Lying on a Hillside: Lying on a hillside remembering stuff.
- Melancholy Moon: Looking at the moon means a character is sad.
- Mysterious Mist: Mist is mysterious.
- Natural Disaster Cascade: Multiple catastrophic weather/nature events happen at once.
- Nature Tinkling: Using the outdoors like a toilet.
- Ominous Clouds: Those dark skies are a portent of danger.
- Ominous Fog: Fog makes everything creepy.
- Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Death: It rains on a dead person.
- Perpetual Storm: Storms that last unusually long.
- Personal Raincloud: A sad character has a raincloud over them.
- Protection from the Elements: Immunity to the negative effects of weather.
- The Power of the Sun: Power that comes from the sun.
- Rain Aura: A glow around rained-on objects.
- Rain of Something Unusual: It's raining non-water.
- Rain, Rain, Go Away: Nobody likes the rain.
- Rays from Heaven: Sunlight is associated with heaven, God, or Jesus.
- Reclaimed by Nature: Nature takes over what society leaves behind.
- Redemption in the Rain: Redemption happens while it's raining.
- Red Sky, Take Warning: If the sky is red, it means doom.
- Regional Redecoration: Better redraw the map.
- Riding into the Sunset: Character goes off into the distance while the sun is setting.
- Romantic Rain: It rains on a romantic scene.
- Seasonal Baggage: Seasons as a plot device.
- Scenery Based Societal Barometer: The health of a single piece of scenery = the health of a society as a whole.
- Single-Season Country: Certain countries like Russia and Australia are always depicted as being stuck in a single season, be it winter or summer.
- Sitting on the Roof: Sitting on the roof, thinking.
- Snow Means Cold: When it's cold, it snows.
- Snow Means Death: When someone dies, it snows.
- Snow Means Love: Romance in the snow.
- Spoofing in the Rain: Parodying Singin' in the Rain.
- Spring Is Late: Whenever the beginning of spring is still like winter, something is off.
- Stargazing Scene: The characters admire the night sky.
- The Stormbringer: The character doesn't summon the storm, the storm itself follows them wherever they go.
- A Storm Is Coming: Foreshadowing done by an oncoming storm.
- Talk About the Weather: Discussing the weather as small talk.
- That Cloud Looks Like...: Clouds shaped like objects.
- Thunder = Downpour: Rainstorms happen all at once.
- Trailer Park Tornado Magnet: Tornadoes in trailer parks.
- Villainous Badland, Heroic Arcadia: Villains live in an inhospitable place while the Heroes live somewhere nice looking.
- Vortex Barrier: The weather itself is used as a means to block people off from important locations.
- Watching the Sunset: A couple, character, or group watching the sunset because they are either very happy or very sad.
- Weather-Control Machine: Machine which controls the weather.
- Weather Dissonance: The weather is wrong.
- Weather Manipulation: Being able to change the weather.
- Weather of War: Weather affecting a fight.
- Weather Report: The weather report.
- Weather Report Opening: The first words in the story are about the weather.
- Weather Saves the Day: A sudden change in the weather saves the heroes.
- Weird Weather: Strange weather as a plot device.
- When It Rains, It Pours: Never slight rain.
- Winter Warfare: Wars in the weather.
- Wintry Auroral Sky: Auroras as Scenery Porn.
