a situation type describing the weather that is typically construed as thetic. Examples: It's raining and The wind is blowing are expressions of weather. Weather is sometimes described as an event without any (salient) participants. Its tendency to be construed as thetic is attributed to the fact that weather is difficult to divide into a topic and a comment and be construed as topic--comment information packaging. (Sections 11.3.1, 11.3.3)