@/ManWithoutABody is writing a novel that starts with the line "It was a bright and starry night."

@/BladeTiger used the trope as part of an RP, justifying it with his HalfHumanHybrid character being likely to get discovered in daylight or a clear night.

After hearing the original line, this troper's brother said, "It was a photon-deficient and meteorologically unstable after-dark time of day."

This troper once began a nonsense story as follows: "It was a dark and stormy night. Ebenezer Antifreeze, the famous astronaut, had just driven his moon buggy to a secluded spot where he could sit down to do his exercises. But I can't remember what happened to him after that, so I think I'll tell you a different story instead."

This editor's homeboy wrote a short story that began like this "The night was charcoal black, aggrivated wind blowing, deep in the sky the lightning bolts elongated and raped the stars"

I always thought thunderstorms were like, really cool, so I opened a game of dnd with this when I was about ten years old. Even back then it seemed like a rubbish idea after a bit of reflection.

I (as my page quote goes) once began a story with a sentence that didn't start with this phrase, but involved it: "Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, it was a dark and stormy night..." ...and my narrator went on to say that this dark and stormy night occurred in a galaxy a while back and that it was hot and dry in Arizona, where the story took place.

I once started a story with "It really was a dark and stormy night."

Once began a D&D campaign by telling the DM: "If it's a dark and stormy night, I'm renting a room and waiting for a bright and sunny day."

This troper wants to start a story with, "It was a dark and stormy night, but our story starts more than a week later, when it was nice and sunny out."