Slightly OT to the depiction of weather (as opposed to the weather itself), but never mind...
It was once remarked (I think by Barnabas, and I think in the scene in which he described to Vicky and Carolyn, during a power outage, Josette's flight to Widow's Hiill) that Collinwood had the worst storms in the area, or maybe even that it attracted the worst storms imaginable. Anyway, ever since I saw that, I keep thinking to myself, "Joshua, what were you thinking when you chose the site for Collinwood?"
Not to mention the whole question of how you can plan a ship-launching when there's a 99% probability of prohibitively bad weather on any given day.