You can refer to a situation in which people are very angry or excited as a tempest. I hadn't foreseen the tempest my request would cause a tempest in a teapot: see teapot = storm. a play by William Shakespeare about Prospero, the Duke of Milan, who has been forced by his brother to live alone on a distant island with his daughter Miranda. The other main characters are Prospero's magical helper, Ariel, and his slave Caliban