Generally the only information that goes in the slug line is exterior or interior, location, and night or day:
INT. HOUSE - NIGHT
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It's not unusual, though, to see some shadings of that "rule", when the writer wants to emphasize one of those elements:
INT. HOUSE - DAWN
EXT. WOODS - DUSK
Or, when you want to indicate the passage of time from an immediately preceding scene set in the same location, simply:
LATER
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Weather is very rarely seen in a slug line. If you really want to emphasize a weather element, you could slug it something like this --
EXT. HOUSE - DAY - TORNADO
Dirt, tree branches, fence posts whirl through the air in the HOWLING wind. The farmhouse shutters rattle and flap as the entire structure is torn from the ground by the tornado.
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But in general it's better to stick to the basic rule of
INT/EXT - PLACE - DAY/NIGHT.
Describe the weather in the narrative, and if you want to emphasize it, put it in CAPS:
EXT. HIGHWAY - DAY
The blinding SNOWSTORM brings traffic to a standstill. Car headlights barely pierce the massive white flurries.
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