New Worlds: How's the Weather?

Weather tends to show up in novels merely as a background detail -- all too often as an example of the pathetic fallacy, where e.g. it's raining because the protagonist is sad. Every so often, it rises to the level of plot device: there's a snowstorm so characters can get snowed in somewhere. Speculative fiction honestly has a dearth of weather worked into the general description of a scene,…