From Selma to Occupy Wall Street, the Fight for 15 to Black Lives Matter, everyday people have proven the power of mass, escalating nonviolent action to rapidly shift the political weather and open the door to reforms previously considered impossible.
Eliasson sometimes allows himself a theatrical illusion, as in a circular installation at MOMA, "360° Room for All Colors" (2002), in which enveloping hues shift like the weather on a neon planet, and you can't see how it's done.
Gilvan Sampaio of the National Institute of Space Research said the north Atlantic was slightly warmer than usual, which had shifted the tropical weather system further north.
Landscape may have no plot, but it has much by way of revelation, not just as one vista gives way to the next, but also as the light shifts, and the weather shifts, and the viewer is filled with feelings that are hard to name.
It's like a slight change of breeze, shifting the mood and the weather.
The densely knit socks, stuffed into clunky sandals, were her only concession to the sudden shift in the weather.
Certainly we are not expecting a heatwave, but the shift in the weather pattern means there will be more of the traditional north-west, south-east divide.
And when someone remarks that "a change is coming," he's as likely to be suggesting a shift in the weather as the dawning of a brand-new era.
Most of us have experienced the everyday, transient blues — the emotions nibbling around the edges of depression (whether they manifest themselves as a sense of malaise, dejection or comic-tinged despair) that can be brought on by a shift in the weather or an unfortunate event.
The temperatures have been widely blamed on a shift in the weather pattern known as the "polar vortex".
