Weather Dissonance: Difference between revisions

[[File:cloudywithchanceofmeatballs2.jpg|link=Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs|thumb|350px|Dissonance? This is [[Blatant Lies|perfectly normal weather!]] ]]

 

''It should have been, but there's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is complete and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime.''|'''[[Good Omens]]'''}}

 

Basically, the weather is just wrong for what it's supposed to be. Usually it's because of something like a [[Weather Control Machine]], sometimes it's from an identifiable source like global warming or "El Niño", but sometimes it's just because we can't perfectly predict the weather. It's just too damn complex.

 

 

Note that unusually ''good'' weather can also be '''Weather Dissonance'''. [[Happy Rain|Unexpected rain]] in the desert or drought-stricken land, [[Cue the Sun|unexpected sunlight]] in the fog and cloud—it can be ironic, or a good omen, or the [[Empathic Environment]] responding to the [[Happy Ending]].

 

 

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== Anime ==

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** In ''Blood Pact'', the snow. Not too anomolous. On the other hand, it ''stops'' during actual attacks by Chaos forces.

* Inverted in [[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]], when Igor and Jeremy need a thunderstorm to start the Glass Clock. Jeremy keeps claiming that they don't have one (for reasons of his own, mostly to spend more time with Myria [[Le Jean]]), but Igor points out that they have had several available in the last few weeks, none of which Jeremy has used.

** In ''[[Brothers of the Snake]]'', rainstorms hit a desert planet during a coronation. At first this is taken as a good omen, but as it grows serious, the people are disturbed and riot. {{spoiler|Chaos forces had assassinated the old queen in order that the [[Requisite Royal Regalia]] might be removed from what it was protecting}}.

** In the [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''Horus Rising'', one planet has "shield storms" arising when the Space Marines arrive. Caused, it turns out [[When Trees Attack|by trees]].

* ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]'' had, towards the end of the plot, one of the [[Olympus Mons]] go berserk and causing either a drought with intense sunlight, or a vicious storm in the eastmost part of the world.

** And ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' games we have Thundorous and Tornadus, that cause violent downpours wherever they go, be they routes bording deserts or open sea.

* As part of the central gameplay mechanic in ''[[Persona 4]]'', mutiple segments are dedicated to watching fog roll in Inaba after a constant rainstorm. This fog comes from a point in which the Midnight Channel has an overflow of fog, which rolls over, causing an extremely dense fog in Inaba, even in the middle of ''summer''. It eventually becomes lampshaded when the local weather channel decides that this phenomenon is bad for public health and warns the people, which is partially correct due to the people thrown within the TV end up with lowered stamina, but this is otherwise [[Insane Troll Logic]]. The True Ending route takes this [[Up to Eleven|one step further]]: {{spoiler|1=an unusual fog creates a "Cloudy Day" that would have lasted forever if taken the OK/Bad Endings, and it's the exact same kind as the Midnight Channel's.}}

 

[[Category:Weather and Environment]]

[[Category:Universal Tropes]]