He also appears in facetious turns of phrase such as "another fine day was supplied by the clerk of the weather".
[4] In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather" (1836), he is imagined as a 6,000-year-old man living on another planet.
Within his dwelling, he has a stock of thunderbolts, rainbows, hailstones, sacks of wind, and a "portable tempest, firmly secured with iron bands".
[5] In Herman Melville's poem "Pebbles" one finds "Though the Clerk of the Weather insist, / And lay down the weather-law, / Pintado and gannet they wist / That the winds blow whither they list / In tempest or flaw".
A. Fanthorpe, in her poem "Special", refers to a class of children looking after a dog as "Clerks of the Weather".