Could the fall of Dalamud permanently altered the planet's own climate patterns by it's descent into our atmosphere? Tidal waves for instance are affected by our own Moon's proximity to us and the the gravitational field it emits by its size and distance from us (crazy considering how freakishly far it is in reality) But could Dalamud, having come from quite a distance out and all the way through our own Atmosphere, every single layer of it, have pushed things a bit too far one way or another? It's been raining like crazy since 2.0 launched actually, I noticed that during the storyline missions, those sudden torrential downpours as you mentioned, we never had anything like that in 1.0. We had some spectacular lightning storms, but nothing like this with rain. Part of that I'm sure has to do with the new engine yes, but the frequency of it is rather odd.

Going along that, sort of off topic, but as the name suggests -Drybone, it's a shame they couldn't have designed the terrian to respond to weather the way FF12's landscapes sometimes did. With alternate routes forming due to the amount of rain we receive, new monster spawns (or fates) which can only come out during certain weather/landscape patterns.

Ah well.