History Main / HostileWeather

Even ''[[TalkAboutTheWeather mentioning]]'' it is TemptingFate. If the mission depends on {{Phlebotinum}}, transportation, or an easily-damaged MacGuffin, weather of this sort will ruin whatever conditions are needed for the original objective. They may sometimes [[WeatherControlMachine be artifi]][[WeatherManipulation cially made]]. Also useful for [[ClosedCircle preventing rescues]]; compare SnowedIn.

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* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', the [[TheFairFolk True Fae]] Nergal is the ElementalEmbodiment of the storms, and claims to be every storm in the LandOfFaerie at once -- and given how RealityIsOutToLunch in Arcadia, this could be true. As for his disposition, well, he's more commonly known as ''The Raging One''.

** People tend to [[WhatAnIdiot exaggerate]] how silly it was for both [[IdiotBall Napoleon ''and'' Hitler]] to forget about the Russian winter while they were invading. The problem with this version of events is that they didn't forget. They knew that the Russian winter would impede their military action. This is why they both invaded ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia during the]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa early summer]]'', and tried to force a quick capitulation. The problem is, however, that the Russian and Soviet armies managed to survive using Fabian tactics until the winter started, at which point they knew they had the homefield advantage. So, the more reasonable solution to the Russia problem is to just not get into a land war in Russia ''at all''.

* The beginning of [[VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage the second Spyro the Dragon game]] has Spyro in the middle of the rain season in the dragon lands. In his own words...

DeadlyDustStorm is a SubTrope. Contrast EmpathicEnvironment tropes, where the weather merely sets the mood rather than actually influencing events. Compare WeatherOfWar and GeniusLoci. The opposite of WeatherSavesTheDay.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': According to "The Intruder", rain on the Boiling Isles is boiling hot. Eda also mentions "gore-nados", "shale hail" and "painbows" (which according to the King are like ordinary rainbows, but they turn you inside out if you stare directly at one).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': In "Fragile Things" the herd runs into a "taurnado", [[WeirdWeather a living centaur-shaped tornado]] that tries to suck up hapless travelers and [[TheAssimilator absorb their souls into its being]].

** Anyone invading Russia from the west is effectively starting on the narrowest available front on its European border. But the deeper into the country you get, the more men you have to deploy over a widening front and the longer your supply lines become - and in winter, the more problematical. The only time Russia has been successfully invaded and conquered was by an army beginning in the ''East'' - where the opposite condition applied, the front progressively narrowed into a relatively small area covering the main population centres, and the invading army - Ghengis Khan's Mongols - was self-sufficient even in winter and was capable of using frozen rivers as highways for its cavalry army and supply train. this way, the mongols were able to concentrate shattering force into breaking the russian armies and swiftly capturing cities, including Kiev and Moscow, in December and January.

** Mayfair Games's AD&D compatible adventure ''Dragons of Weng T'sen''. While in the Valley of Weng T'sen, the PlayerCharacters will experience wildly variable weather that can change up to every half hour. Weather types include freezing cold, heat waves, blizzards, hail, heavy rain and thunderstorms. The weather is caused by the dreams of the Dragons Lords who lie in poisoned sleep nearby.

** Module [=WG7=] ''[[TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}} Castle Greyhawk]]''. On any given day, the title edifice is beset with random nasty weather caused by druid weather control magic. It includes torrential rain, winds up to 60 m.p.h., tornadoes, hailstorms, temperatures down to -40 °F, sleet, snow, lightning storms, blistering temperatures up to 130 °F and severe dust storms.

* ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'': Many maps in the game will have various weather hazards that were designed to give the players challenge by forcing them to adapt to the sudden environmental changes, examples including sandstorm in Hourglass map that could drastically limit visibility or tornado in Kaleidoscope map that could lift players and vehicles into the vortex.

DeadlyDustStorm is a subtrope. Contrast EmpathicEnvironment tropes, where the weather merely sets the mood rather than actually influencing events. Compare WeatherOfWar and GeniusLoci. The opposite of WeatherSavesTheDay.

* The snow on Caradhras in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is explicitly hostile to the Fellowship. In the book, it even dumps an avalanche behind them after they leave, in case they change their mind.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has optional rules for all manner of environmental conditions, including weather. Unsurprisingly, given the setting, many of them are lethal. Lightning can fry men and equipment, hailstones heavy enough to crush skulls may be falling, or the blizzard (or sandstorm) may be so intense that it clogs intake valves on skimmers and forces them to crash.

* ''Arduin'' RPG, ''The Compleat Arduin Book 2: Resources''. Weather in Arduin can include blizzards, windstorms up to 70 m.p.h., heavy rain, thunderstorms and lightning, blistering heat (up to 120 °F), intense cold (down to -40 °F) and hail storms, and that's just on land. At sea weather can be waterspouts, typhoons and hurricanes. All of these types of nasty weather will last from 1-6 days.

* From the film version of ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'', just as the battle of Helms Deep is about to begin, it begins pouring rain. One of the soldiers glances up at the rain as if to ask "Are you kidding me?"

* When the UsefulNotes/{{Mongol|ia}}s invaded UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, their assault was halted by a severe typhoon. Then the ''same exact thing'' happened when they tried again. Both sides took this as [[DeusExMachina divine providence]]; UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan decided to back off until {{God}} was in a better mood, while to the Japanese it was the origin of the word ''kamikaze'' ("divine wind").

* ''Arduin'' RPG, ''The Compleat Arduin Book 2: Resources''. Weather in Arduin can include blizzards, windstorms up to 70 m.p.h., heavy rain, thunderstorms and lighting, blistering heat (up to 120 °F), intense cold (down to -40 °F) and hail storms, and that's just on land. At sea weather can be waterspouts, typhoons and hurricanes. All of these types of nasty weather will last from 1-6 days.