Weather and Environment

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Tropes to do with the atmosphere and weather, be it artificial or natural.

A sub-index of Tropes of Nature.

Tropes:

• 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.
• Big Storm Episode: An episode focusing on a big storm.
• Bizarre Seasons: The seasons change randomly or don't work the way ours do.
• Born During a Storm: A storm punctuates a baby's birth.
• 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 Shooting Star: Shooting stars are used in order to make a scene more emotional.
• 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.
• Faking the Weather: Character uses special effects to fool someone into believing fake weather conditions.
• Fear of Thunder: Character is scared of thunderstorms.
• Fertile Feet: When a character takes a step, flowers grow.
• First Snow: Character experiences snow for the first time.
• Fisher King: What happens to the ruler happens to their land.
• 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.
• 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.
• Living Barometer: A character can predict the weather, often by aches and pains.
• 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.
• The Power of the Sun: Power that comes from the sun.
• Protection from the Elements: Immunity to the negative effects of weather.
• Rain Aura: A glow around rained-on objects.
• Rain Means Death: When someone dies, it rains.
• 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.
• Scenery-Based Societal Barometer: The health of a single piece of scenery = the health of a society as a whole.
• Seasonal Baggage: Seasons as a plot device.
• 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.
• Snow of Ash: It looks like snow, but it’s actually ash falling from the sky, possibly from a natural cause such as a forest fire or a volcanic eruption.
• 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.
• Storm of Magic: A storm of uncontrolled magic sweeping across the world and causing random and perilous effects.
• Sucky Summer: The heat of summer is unbearable.
• Summer Romance: Love stories start or span the summer.
• Talk About the Weather: Discussing the weather as small talk.
• That Cloud Looks Like...: Clouds shaped like objects.
• That One Summer: A summer, with its seasonal joys, is a hallmark of lost innocence.
• Thunder As Divine Response: A thunderclap is treated as a response from (a) God to something someone did.
• Thunder Equals 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.
• Wintertime Episode: Episodes featuring activity during the winter months without being related to Christmas.
• Winter Warfare: Wars in the weather.
• Wintry Auroral Sky: Auroras as Scenery Porn.