Raining in Thanalan

[Mysteltain]

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.

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.

[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.

[ErBear]

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 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.

[Zappo]

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.

[Tebbo]

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.

[ObeiKinstar]

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....

[Lucipurr]

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

[Demeos]

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).

[lord_naarghul]

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.

[Quatre]

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