This ad hoc, practical approach could also help the EU to weather the issues of Brexit and Scottish independence without a full-blown crisis.
Partially due to recent extreme weather events, the issue of climate change is once more at the forefront of American politics.
We'll see how this beautiful friendship weathers the issues that boil blood, like the Middle East.
The oil companies pull out their same litany of excuses; unrest in the Middle East, weather issues, refining issues, the moon being in the wrong phase, but ultimately they are just that: excuses.
We will have to see if King.com can weather the bigger issue around the fact that while casual social games as a category remain perennially popular, the same cannot be said for individual games.
Publicly stoic, the investment bankers, accountants and energy executives said they would weather the larger issues that buffet any commodity-based industry, like the sluggish economy and low prices for oil, natural gas and electricity.
On the other hand, it could be argued there hasn't really been a sea change at companies like Facebook and Twitter, and some analysts think they'll be able to weather the privacy issues and move forward.
Some political scientists have suggested that extreme weather has made the issue of climate change more immediate for voters.
Greengrass praised the work of former culture secretary Chris Smith and of the Labour government in their backing of the film and TV industries, "leading despite problems, weathering the lottery issue and getting the rebate right.
Mike Smith, a blogging meteorologist and author of "Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather," takes issue with the notion that this was a "well warned" event.
