Article content I had a small pang of panic the other day. I don’t know how it happened — these things are always a mystery to me — but somehow the ghost in the machine deleted the weather app on my iPhone. Sign In or Create an Account Article content Now, I do not suffer from astraphobia (an intense fear of thunder and lightning), lilapsophobia — a phobic dread of tornadoes and hurricanes — or even ombrophobia, a deep anxiety triggered by rain.