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Acid Rain:
Elegant as marble in acid rain - Zaina Alsous "Reading Darwish in Vermont"

Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"

Seeding our clouds with acid rain - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"

Effaced from marble by acid rain - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"

Aeolian:
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"

Blizzard.

Bluster.

Boreal/Boreas.

Breeze.

Chinook:
Until February's first chinook - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"

Cirrus:
I study atlases and cirrus paths in search of traces - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]

Climate/Clime.

Cloud.

Cloudless.

Cumulous:
Piercing the flesh of cumulous dragons - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"

Domes of coral cumulus - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Our Homeland"

Cyclone.

Deluge.

Dew.

Downpour.

Drizzle.

Drought.

Dust Devil:
A sudden dust devil spirals in - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

A dust devil gathering wind - Tyree Daye "The Death of Jimmy as the Dog He Always Was"

East Wind.

Flurry:
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"

A flurry of notes from Mozart - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"

Fog.

Forecast:
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"

Can forecast when the time will be too late - Harry Martinson "Aniara 96" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Forty-Below:
Forty-below was a good day - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Frost.

Gale.

Gust.

Hail.

Hailcloud:
Lashes of white light binding another hailcloud - Adrienne Rich "Peace"

Hailstorm:
Underneath a hailstorm of light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

Haze/Hazy.

Headwind:
A steady cold channel of headwind - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"

Heat Wave:
The apples that blossom during a February heat wave - Sarah Freligh "In this Poem, We Will Not Glorify Sunrise"

Hoarfrost:
The hoar-frost crumbles in the sun - D.H. Lawrence "Anxiety"

Hoarfrost sliding its palms across fields - Judy Patterson Wenzel "School Nights at the Farm"

Humid.

Hurricane.

Jet-Stream:
Jet-streams of oxygen spun like pinwheels - Ian Goh "Firework"

Levin:
The chariot wheels of burning levin - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'" ['Levin' is an archaic term for 'lightning']

Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

The levin's blighting fire comes - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"

The javelin of the far-ravening levin - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Lightning.

Low-Pressure System:
A low-pressure system in the abdomen - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"

Meteorology:
Looked to meteorologists for explanations - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"

Mist.

Monsoon.

Muggy:
Muggy marshes & thick forests of the mind - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Night-Wind.

North Wind.

Overcast.

Petrichor:
leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

Rain.

Rainbow.

Rainwater:
Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"

Sandstorm:
A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"

Fleeing sandstorms, terror, and splendor - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

The countryside startles into sandstorm - Wang An-Shih "Autumn Wind" transl. by David Hinton

Sheet-Lightning:
Hail blazing in sheet-lightning - H.D. "Simaetha"

With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"

Shower.

Sirocco:
O'er long tracts the mournful siroc sighs - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

These the Siroc could not melt - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Sleet.

Smog:
A smog that becomes a wraith - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"

All that stayed stuffed in my lungs like smog - Adrienne Rich "Peeling Onions"

Snow.

Snowfall:
Snowfall from the nebula compounding winter seasons into eons - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"

Snowflake.

Snowstorm.

South Wind.

Squall:
End credits after the squall - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"

If trouble came in shape of squall - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"

Among wild squalls of banded clouds - Georgia Heard "Room of Science"

The stronger for the squall - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"

Storm.

Storm-Cell:
Hunt a storm-cell's shifting edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

Stormcloud.

Temperature.

Tempest.

Thunder.

Thunderclap.

Thunderhead:
And erected temples like thunderheads - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"

Thunderstorm.

Tornado.

Torrid:
Where torrid suns the mountains burn - Lennox Amott "Ah, Hast Thou Gone?"

A swirling pillar made of torrid gases - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Tropic/Tropical.

Typhoon:
That plunged at typhoon strength among the mountains - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A typhoon of incandescent particles - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Hooked to a typhoon's tail - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Weather.

West Wind.

Whirlwind.

Whiteout:
The whiteout of a spring blizzard - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"

Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"

A spark crystal in a whiteout - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Wind.

Windless.

Windsock:
A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

Wind Storm:
Forests of wind storms newly risen - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"


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