I ran the Richmond Marathon in 1983. The weather was rainy with a temperature in the mid 50s (or about 12 C). It was not the nicest weather to run a marathon in. Since that time I had called cloudy and rainy weather "marathon weather"; that is, until I went to several Toastmaster conferences in a row that featured such weather. Then I called cloudy and rainy weather "Toastmaster weather". Here is a table of the various weathers I had come up with in the past few years:
| Marathon Weather | Cloudy and Rainy |
| Toastmaster Weather | Cloudy and Rainy |
| Fair Weather | Cloudy and Rainy |
| Miami Weather | Pleasant sunny days and bone-chilly nights |
| SWIM Weather | same as Miami weather |
| SUUSI Weather | Warm and hazy; storms at night |
| Spring Weather | Snow flurries |
| Skywatch Weather | Cloudy or muggy and hazy |
| Eclipse Weather | Clouds at the wrong time |
| Christmas Weather | No Snow |
| Fourth of July Weather | Warm and muggy with lots of bugs |
| Skiing weather | Warm weather suitable for short sleeves and shorts |
The third one is pronounced FAIR weather, not fair WEAther, and means weather typical of a Virginia State Fair; i.e., cloudy and rainy. To that I might add "drought weather", which means cloudy and rainy. SWIM is the Southeast Winter Institute in Miami, a Unitarian-Universalist camp and conference held between Yule and New Year's; no URL for this camp seems to be available.
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