Exotic weather

[Iromi]

I notice that that ship in the sea of clouds only shows up in the unique weather! Haha the new weather is cool, hopefully they'll do something with it

[Reinhart]

Wait a second, I just had a thought. The hours on an Eorzean clock are organized into the six elements, and further divided into Astral and Umbral. So there's two hours each day for Umbral Wind and two for Umbral Static, one in the AM and one in the PM. Has anyone checked to see if the times for those weather effects coincide on the same time each Eorzean day? That is, when they show up, which may not be every single Eorzean day.

That's likely not the case. Weather changes 3 times at day and lasts for 8 hours each time, at midnight, 8am, and 4pm. And while it follows an algorithm and each zone within a region kinda lines up with each other's weather, other regions don't line up with each other for the most part.

[Roda]

I notice that that ship in the sea of clouds only shows up in the unique weather! Haha the new weather is cool, hopefully they'll do something with it

I believe you may be misinformed.

[WyrahFhurrst]

That's likely not the case. Weather changes 3 times at day and lasts for 8 hours each time, at midnight, 8am, and 4pm. And while it follows an algorithm and each zone within a region kinda lines up with each other's weather, other regions don't line up with each other for the most part.

Ah, oh well. It was an interesting thought at least. It would have been very interesting if it did line up. It's close though. According to the chart on this page the Umbral Wind could still line up, and the Umbral Lightning time is an hour later, which in my opinion could be a decent approximation enough to work.

[treuhavik]

Simply put, as aether gathers and transitions from astral to umbral it grows more and more volitile and eventually changes -- some sort of reation causes the aether to shift into the next element and dispurse, repeating for each element, of course.

So, Moose informed me last night that the elemental wheel can move both ways -- clock or counterclockwise -- which pretty much busts my theory, as I can't yet explain coherently how a light concentration of aether (astral) would suddenly become dense (umbral), or visa versa, upon transitioning to another element. The theory as it stands would dictate the element is plainly unable to change into another, continually bouncing between umbral and astral aspects of itself. This is all probably gibberish to most, but for those that follow, thems the breaks. :\