Unease about the weather has undoubtedly been a lasting human trait as long as humans have lived on earth. We can be certain the advent of agriculture about 12,000 years ago brought specific worry about rains and drought. Ancient mythologies all had a god of weather to appease to bring abundant crops and keep people safe. The ancient Greeks had Zeus, the god of thunder and lightning, and the Romans had Jupiter for the same realm. Archaeologists in India have found stone bowls dating back to 400 BCE that were used as rain gauges to help foretell crop yields, the first weather instruments we know of. This talk has two parts; the first part (The History of Weather) steps through the last 2,000 years of weather forecasting advances and technologies, from folklore to AI. The second part (The Weather of History) looks back at cataclysmic weather events that have literally shaped human geopolitics over the past 500 years. As an added bonus we will review all-time extreme weather records here in Canada and look at global weather extreme records as well.