After Storm Darragh whipped around Selhurst Park on a bitterly cold afternoon last Saturday, as Crystal Palace battled with Manchester City, it's time to look back at some of the other occasions when the elements have had a major role to play in the action...
Way back in 1926, almost a century ago, Palace and Plymouth played out a remarkable 5-5 draw in the snow. It was just the Glazier's second season in their new ground, opened for the start of the 1924/25 campaign after moving across from The Nest.
Snow covered the pitch but the game went ahead nonetheless, and thank goodness it did. Palace found themselves trailing at half-time, having scored twice but conceded four times at the other end. The scoring was far from finished, however.
After the break, the Glaziers fought back to take the lead 5-4, before the visitors snatched an equaliser in the dying second to share the points.
The winter of 1947 would become infamous, but Palace muddled through thanks to legendary groundsman Charlie Catlett, who rallied a party of German prisoners of war to help him clear the pitch so a game against Exeter could go ahead.
In 1963, they weren't so lucky, and four home games were postponed thanks to the elements, as the 'Big Freeze' set in over Britain.
It's not just snow that can affect games - fog has also been a blight in South London over the years.
Dense clouds descended on Selhurst Park as recently as three years ago, as fans squinted through the gloom to try to make out the Palace and Manchester United players during a particularly unfulfilling 0-0 draw.
Over time, of course, fog has provided a much more real threat to matches in England - particularly during the 1950s, when London was immersed in 'pea souper' smogs.
It was not uncommon for games in this era to be cancelled barely minutes from kick-off or, worse still, mid-game. One such occurrence in 1935 saw Palace and Bristol City made to leave the pitch after a staggering 80 minutes with the game at 1-1 before visibility became too poor to continue.
The FA Cup appears to attract such events, too. Palace hosted Millwall in the 1950/51 tournament before the game was abandoned in the 34th-minute. Naturally, south London's No.1 side went on to lose the replay 1-4.
Years later, in the 90/91 FA Cup, supporters were well on their way to Nottingham Forest's City Ground when news spread that fog had forced the game off for a third time. Each postponement was caused by a different issue in 1991 - with rain and ice delaying the meetings before this instance.
The FA Cup continued to produce fog-related drama, perhaps none more so than in December 1952, when the Great Smog of London brought the city to a halt.
Palace - or at least parts of Palace - travelled to north London's Finchley Town for an FA Cup clash on December 6th, 1952.
But not everyone made it as far as N12. Two Palace players and a linesman ended up stuck on the North Circular with the fog too thick to drive through and so appeals rang over the Tannoy system for officials or players to take their place.
The reseve-team's Bob Bishop happened to be watching that day and stepped forward for his first-team debut at centre-forward. The tie began on a frozen pitch and, with Finchley 3-1 ahead in the 63rd-minute, the refereed halted play to wait for visibility to improve.
After a short pause, the game was abandoned and Bishop saw his only senior appearance expunged from the records. That didn't limit his passion for the club, however, as he went on to become a club director in the 1970s.
