ABSTRACT
The opening paragraph of Aristotle's Meteorology immediately establishes weather's significance. Claiming that meteorology is “concerned with events that are natural … [that] take place in the region nearest to the motion of the stars,” Aristotle extends meteorology beyond the skies' activities to include “all the affections we may call common to air and water, and the kinds and parts of the earth and the affections of its parts.” 1 In this early meteorological treatise, Aristotle establishes what by now is a fairly agreeable commonplace: weather always involves more than the weather.
