Raining in Thanalan

[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.

[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.

[RyuujinZERO]

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:

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.

[Felis]

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?

[Rowyne]

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?!?

[Mythrella]

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

[Balte12]

NERF RAIN. ITS TOO POWERFUL MANG!