Masses of sea-fog came drifting inland. White, wet clouds, which swept by in ghostly fashion, so dank and damp and cold that it needed but little effort of imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 7. The storm of the century hits Whitby and during it a mysterious Russian ship called the Demeter is washed up at Whitby carrying Dracula. None of the crew members on the ship survive. The storm represents the coming of Dracula and his evil to the shores of England.