You may not remember it, but the noun weather once had simple adjectives associated with it like hot, wet, cold, rainy, sunny, and sometimes stormy. Then, a dozen or so years ago, new adjectives began to sidle up next to weather: wacky, bizarre, cyclical, unpredictable, and coincidental. This last year, an extreme class of adjectives has come forward; words usually reserved for war, or other cataclysmic events. Adjectives like heartbreaking, devastating, massive, catastrophic, calamitous, and threat-multiplier, have all emerged next to weather. This shift has fostered worldwide concern about anthropogenic forcing of the adjective balance and a call for a reduction in adjective use.