We are angry when another person jumps in and tells the news before us. A secret of construction of thunder sound-making machine used in a play in the 17th century was stolen by the makers of a rival play. We'll have to weather the storm. It is safer for a ship to stay at sea during a storm than to try to enter a harbour, which can be dangerous. There is no choice but to put up with the discomfort of the storm.
Politicians spend their lives weathering political storms or scandals of one kind or another.
The Moscow State Ballet took London by storm. I was snowed under with work. I had a lot of work to do. As pure as the driven snow. He doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell.