Advent 2019:Calendar/1

So I decided to skip exercise number 1 and so today I am going to be talking about weather and climate. Now climate depends a lot upon halide cells and trade winds, at the equator we have low pressure rain forests and then deserts and so on an as such it would be very useful to know the pole to pole distance of our planet. Now I did some work on my planets air currents for the ship story so I know roughly where the 60 degree low pressure system is - the southern tip of Illia or roughly 1000 miles south of Pleitsdorf. Now the central low is someway south of Mul'Glath but I haven't mapped that far so we shall have to look for another point.

Narlwage is colder than Denmark which is on the 60 degree low in the real world (Scotland is also on the 60 low but that has the gulf stream and Narlwage doesn't as it is sheltered by Leon and æthelron) while Leon is supposed to be like France. That gives us about 50 miles to go from sunny to snowy. But North Leon isn't sunny all year round and Narlwage doesn't snow day in day out. Actually it is rather more like Denmark after all. So I recon its on the southern tip of Narlwage about 400 miles north of Pleitsdorf. This gives us about 50 miles to the degree while earth has about 70. Not to dissimilar.

Mix in some pseudo-magical effects and we are ready to roll.

So now we come to ocean currents. Ocean currents start off going west and then the colliaris effect turns them north and east. Now this runs into the problem that I haven't finished building my world so... Well due to the shape of æthelron and Scurwage any currents will be local anyway. So the main current will flow out from the coast of araby and ever westward until it reaches some distant land over the sea. Now we get on to the sticky question of how far the ice shelf is from Narlwage. I think it should be about 100 miles or 2 degrees from north Narlwage which is in turn 65 degrees north of the equator (so 67 degrees north). Reality says that it should be 80 degrees north or 350 miles. Either way there is a lot of space for a easterly current north of the Narlwagian coast. Now for the local currents. The æthelron, Scurwage, Euphoria current will be effected more by the southern current and so will rotate clockwise (north to æthelron then east to Euphoria before going back south to the southern current). Scurwage will deflect some cold water from the northern current which will join it on the southwards trip. This will leave it at roughly the same temperature as the land masses around it (without any over all affect) except in æthelron where it will have a warming affect.

So there you go, the prevailing wind and wave currents of Gaia.