stormy night
Wild, windswept darkness
A stormy night is a night marked by violent weather—heavy rain, strong winds, thunder, lightning.
The phrase carries literary weight from its notorious overuse as an opening line: It was a dark and stormy night.
Beyond weather, stormy nights evoke atmosphere: danger, mystery, dramatic events about to unfold.
- thunderStorm's acoustic aftermath
- lightningAtmospheric electrical discharge
- rainWater dropping from clouds
- howling windLoud, fierce moving air
- windAir current outdoors
pouring rain · howling · dark · clouds · tempest · downpour · shelter · umbrella · flickering · candles · power outage · rattling · windows · eerie · shadows · drenched · gale · torrential
- nighttimenightfall, starry sky, moonlight, dusk, darkness
- Gothic horrorghost story, haunted houses, Dracula, vampires, Frankenstein
- thriller tropesplot twist, red herring, cliffhanger, whodunit, femme fatale