I covered rain & other bad-weather names pretty well in the Hurricane Names post, so here're (mostly) happy meteorological names.
Boys:
- Edur (ED-oor, Basque)--"snow"
- Elio (EL-yoh, Italian)--from Latin Aelius, "sun"
- Frediano (fred-YAH-noh, Italian)--"cold"
- Pyry (PÜ-rü, Finnish [ü is roughly between the English 'ih' & 'uh'] )--"snowstorm"
- Ravi (rah-VEE, Indian [Hindi])--"sun"
- Ryo (ryoh, Japanese)--"cool, refreshing" [can also mean "reality"]
- Sorin (soh-REEN, Romanian)--"sun"
Girls:
- Bora (BOH-rah, Albanian)--"snow"
- Edurne (eh-DOOR-nay, Basque)--"snow"
- Eira (AY-rah or EYE-rah, Welsh)--"snow"
- Fanna (FAHN-nah, Swedish)--from Old Norse, "snowdrift"
- Haizea (eye-ZAY-ah, Basque)--"wind"
- Heulwen (HAYL-wen, Welsh)--"sunshine"
- Kasumi (kah-soo-mee, Japanese)--"misty"
- Lumi (LOO-mee, Finnish)--"snow"
- Nasim (nah-seem, Arabic)--"breeze"
- Soleil (soh-LAY, French)--"sun"
- Sorina (soh-REEN-nah, Romanian)--"sun"
- Sunčana (SOON-chah-nah, Croatian)--"sunny"
- Terhi (TEHR-hee, Finnish)--"mist"
- Tesni (TES-nee, Welsh)--"warming sunshine"
- Yuki (yoo-kee, Japanese)--"snow" [can also mean "happiness"]
Unisex:
- Haru (hah-roo, Japanese)--"sunlight" [can also mean "spring"]
- Makani (mah-kah-nee, Hawaiian)--"wind"
- Noe (noh-ay, Hawaiian)--"mist"
- Xue (shooeh, Chinese)--"snow" [can also mean "learning"]
The only ones of these I've come across IRL are the Japanese ones. I lived there for 9 months and regularly heard all of the ones you listed. And Soleil. Eira is a pretty alternative to Ira!!
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