Using Weather to Enhance Suspense

Weather can serve as an antagonist in any novel, whether it's  mystery, suspense, thriller or other genre. And I've used precipitation in all its forms in my own books.

In my first novel, A Village Shattered, the opaque San Joaquin 
fog hides the serial killer, but I didn’t even think about the fog until I was writing chapter three. Having lived in the valley for a dozen years, I know the horror of trying to drive in pea soup fog, so I switched seasons and went back to chapt...