Whether and whither the weather.

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_interzone.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 01:23:03 +0100 (BST)

Pam Carlson gives some plausible analogies bwteen the Seattle weather and Sartar's. But to make a very off-the-cuff latitude comparison, isn't this going to make northern Peloria Glorantha's answer to Hudson bay?

From what I gather about the PNW, though, I picture Sartar as having a rather longer "dry season", and a warmer one, too. For Fire and Earth Season, at least, I think at least the "lowland" areas of Sartar have a climate rather like that of southern France, merging into some more actually Alpine areas. That it's so much worse weather in winter we can account for by the lack of a gulf stream, a somewhat more "continental" heating model, and the mother and father of all winter depression tracks, courtesy of the big-O himself (or the corresponding semi-tropical storm, as one prefers).

Some of Greg's factoids about Sartar, such as mentions of "winter grapes", I think we just have to ascribe to the occassional flashback caused by interesting chemicals from the 60's. ;-)

I suspect, incidentally, that the Kalikos cult's efforts have changed Sartar's climate signifantly too. So Pam may just have to put up with Theya getting snowed on and frozen, the Resettlement era types not yet having had the chance to benefit from the effects of Lunar Weather Control Satellite technology.

Flame locally, warm globally,
Alex.

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