“In French, Italian and Spanish ‘time’ and ‘weather’ are the same words(temps, tempo,tiempo), a sure sign of the reassuring regularity of the seasons and the sun. Even more tellingly, heaven and the sky in most romance languages are the same (ciel or cielo). In the south they can see or imagine heaven when they look up into the infinite celestial blue.”
And what do we see here?
“The clue is in the derivation of the word sky. Its root is the Old Norse for cloud”

From Sunshine: One Man’s Search for Happiness by Robert Mighall