In response to the climate crisis, the overriding political imaginary rests on the belief that technology will prevail over the atmosphere’s ability to redistribute wealth via weather; but, as the materiality and intensity of weather quickly reconfigures environments, our occupation of the atmosphere and its occupation of us shifts to the fore of land and human rights struggles around the globe. While often discussed in terms of symptomatic change—rising seas and intensifying weather events—the skeletal structure of climate destabilisation centres on the birth and death of planetary winds that distribute, stabilise, and assemble material and affective realities. As these structures collapse and emerge anew, they unground historic relations between weather and Empire and offer a chance to organise around the seen and unseen differently. Considering a key set of atmospheric relations, this introduction to atmospheric occupations will focus on meteorological assemblages from the Tibetan Plateau to the eastern Mediterranean.