Quote Originally Posted by Kedrah View Post
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.