30 Days of World-Building (Second Edition) - Day 2 - Physical Planet

Exercise 2 - What role will weather play in your story? Any ideas at this stage are not set it stone. Instead, come up with (ten)* plot devices that relate to weather, and what they would do to the story.

Thunderstorm - interrupt and short circuit electrical conduits, making for a dark and horrifying chase scene or for a dramatic tension moment when electricity is crucial

Heavy Fog - impair vision, causing tension during critical dramatic or combat sequences

Snowstorm - complicate overland travel, detour character's plans, perhaps trap them inside somewhere they would rather not be

Cold Snap - cause sickness and death in communities unprepared, freeze retained water supplies, interfere with electrical devices, causing a temporary, but horrifying, darkness, both figuratively and literally.

Flash Flood - temporarily halt river transportation, carry plague and disease throughout the regions affected, complicate overland travel

*WRITER'S NOTE* Realistically speaking, the setting I've chosen will only work with a specific range of natural phenomenon. The chance of dust storms, tropical storms, or hurricanes is near 0%