Raining in Thanalan

What's the deal with so much rain in Thanalan?

It feels like it's raining half the time I'm there. Are they planning to add more vegetation in an update? that would be cool.

Otherwise please make it rain less, it just doesn't feel right.

That's not rain. It's a mirage.

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Originally Posted by ObeiKinstar

What's the deal with so much rain in Thanalan?

It feels like it's raining half the time I'm there. Are they planning to add more vegetation in an update? that would be cool.

Otherwise please make it rain less, it just doesn't feel right.

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It is raining 1/2 the time there because the heaven crying for the innocents that lost their lives due to corruption, crime, vice and more corruption.

Don't live the in Ul'dah once housing comes into play. Can't imagine the amount of break-ins, extortions and beggers.

It can rain in deserts, and does in fact, but the overall climate and geography is not good for vegetation to grow even if there is rain. The water tends to pool on the surface and/or drown things. It's not all that weird for it to rain in Thanalan, really. c:

I found fog in Sagolii to be vastly more... Odd...

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Originally Posted by Sotek

I found fog in Sagolii to be vastly more... Odd...

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It not fog... its the souls of the lost made physical.

It rains in the desert more often than you might think. Considering the game's accelerated passage of time I don't think it's too far off the mark.

I thought having very little rain was like the definition of a desert. I know it's possible for it to happen, but if it's happening daily then it's not a desert.

That is the definition.

They're being facetious. It rains sure but scarcely.
Thanalan is mostly scrubland anyway, but it is a bit odd, it should only rain rarely there, regardless of accelerated time.

OK, I know it can rain in arid climates, but the arid regions are arid because they receive little precipitation.

If it continues to rain as it is then I would expect more vegetation to grow, simple as that. And we're not talking a little rain fall once in a while... It is raining with full gale forces, even at camp DRYbone....

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Originally Posted by ElHeggunte

It rains in the desert more often than you might think. Considering the game's accelerated passage of time I don't think it's too far off the mark.

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I have lived in a actual desert, much like around uldah, and it rains really hard once a year, and rains every once in a while the rest of the year. So, no it doesn't rain that much.

Was it a coincidence that it was raining throughout my whole mission when those Waking Sand people died? If so wow..

I always thought the name for Drybone had more to do with the cemetery than the climate.

Now if a real desert-like setting is something you're looking for, try South Thanalan (there's an actual weather setting there for scorching hot).

I live in a shrubland desert. It rains with some frequency here. However, the ground here is not very soluble and is mostly clay and rock.

Most of our precip occurs in the winter, as snow.

For the record, this has been a year for brutal extremes in temperature. In the winter, in January, we got something like 10 days of temperatures of -20 degrees or lower, and then in late June we had a week straight of 110 degree weather.

Pretty sure they dont grow more vegetation because people will just complain about grass being too pixelated instead.

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Originally Posted by Kedrah

It can rain in deserts, and does in fact, but the overall climate and geography is not good for vegetation to grow even if there is rain. The water tends to pool on the surface and/or drown things. It's not all that weird for it to rain in Thanalan, really. c:

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While this is true, the environment of Thanalan is lot like Almeria province in Spain (Where I live). Rain is a seasonal thing, where you get a period of intense rains around fall and then over winter the environment greens over; for it to get quickly turned back into dead scrub come late spring/summer. Thanalan is in a permanent fall cycle - heavy frequent rains, but a dry barren environment. So, it's technically *possible* for the conditions to overlap, it's just not sustainable - because the environment can and will eventually turn green if that cycle were to persist for more than a couple of weeks.

Thanalan was once green like the Black Shroud. Then came the 6th umbral era with the big flood.
In 1.0 there was an organization in Ul'dah that wanted to make Thanalan green again. Maybe they found a weather spell?

I agree, I think the rain is very out of place. In fact, every time I try to take screenshots in Ul'dah, it seems like they're ruined by all the rain!!! I can't get any decent night time screenshots of All Saints Wake because it won't stop raining at night. WTF is up with all this never-ending rain in the freaking desert?!?

Heh, I noticed this too. It rains more there than in the shroud as far as I can tell :p

NERF RAIN. ITS TOO POWERFUL MANG!

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Originally Posted by ObeiKinstar

What's the deal with so much rain in Thanalan?
It feels like it's raining half the time I'm there. Are they planning to add more vegetation in an update? that would be cool.
Otherwise please make it rain less, it just doesn't feel right.

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It's still winter there. The Mojave desert in California also has a rainy season in winter. Perhaps that's why.

The rain amount is unrealistic but they can't set it on a timer more accurate to Earth conditions. Isn't rain a condition required to catch certain fish? Imagine how furious the fishers would be if they had to wait until summer or the tail end of winter to catch those fish.

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Originally Posted by Sotek

I found fog in Sagolii to be vastly more... Odd...

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Parts of Thanalan are near the sea which is conducive for foggy conditions and it is entirely possible for a desert to have fog but not fog that persists into the afternoon.

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Originally Posted by Kedrah

It can rain in deserts, and does in fact, but the overall climate and geography is not good for vegetation to grow even if there is rain. The water tends to pool on the surface and/or drown things. It's not all that weird for it to rain in Thanalan, really. c:

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Desert rain tends to come in very short, intense downpours, which is why the water remains on the surface - it doesn't have a chance to saturate the soil, so the soil remains packed and dry. Some areas in Thanalan are more reminiscent of savannah than desert, so it would make sense for a "rainy season" - though I doubt the intensity of the rain in game will vary over the course of a year.

It is funny that 9 times out of 10, if I'm in or around Camp Drybone, it is anything but... dry.

What I find more annoying, however, are the heat waves. They make me nauseous. :/

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Originally Posted by Xieveral

The rain amount is unrealistic but they can't set it on a timer more accurate to Earth conditions. Isn't rain a condition required to catch certain fish? Imagine how furious the fishers would be if they had to wait until summer or the tail end of winter to catch those fish.

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A guy in my old FC was pretty big into fishing, and the one time he wanted to catch a fish in Eastern Thanalan that only appeared during rainy weather, it didn't rain for about 12 hours straight. When it finally did, it lasted 20 minutes and he wasn't able to catch it. Never rained the rest of the day. I felt so bad for him xD

So yeah, it wouldn't matter if actual seasons were implemented or not--the game always has a way of trolling you.

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Originally Posted by HumsterMKX

It is raining 1/2 the time there because the heaven crying for the innocents that lost their lives due to corruption, crime, vice and more corruption.

Don't live the in Ul'dah once housing comes into play. Can't imagine the amount of break-ins, extortions and beggers.

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