Jarnys -- the weather bug is not fixed.
The weather changes every few IRL minutes (I haven't figured out how often -- it's probably in the code somewhere). To be useful, weather prognostication would have to extend several Atys hours out, just to make it possible to get to weather dependent nodes. Given that it is subject to variability on the fraction of Atys hour scale, that would seem to mitigate against useful prediction except for general trends, even if the stochastic changes get queued up as Olmo suggests.
So a forecast might go... "Observations of the air conditions in the Lands of Continuity suggest unsettled weather for the next six hours." or "The magnetic observations in Void suggest prolonged periods of Fair weather for the day, followed by mostly Thundery in the night." But there would be periods during the day when it rained, and periods of Fair that night. Not the usual errors that we see in mundane forecasts, but just random jitters.
I'd just settle for the weather recording bug to be fixed so I could tell what the changes actually *were*. As it is, I treat "weather" as a random factor.
The weather changes every few IRL minutes (I haven't figured out how often -- it's probably in the code somewhere). To be useful, weather prognostication would have to extend several Atys hours out, just to make it possible to get to weather dependent nodes. Given that it is subject to variability on the fraction of Atys hour scale, that would seem to mitigate against useful prediction except for general trends, even if the stochastic changes get queued up as Olmo suggests.
So a forecast might go... "Observations of the air conditions in the Lands of Continuity suggest unsettled weather for the next six hours." or "The magnetic observations in Void suggest prolonged periods of Fair weather for the day, followed by mostly Thundery in the night." But there would be periods during the day when it rained, and periods of Fair that night. Not the usual errors that we see in mundane forecasts, but just random jitters.
I'd just settle for the weather recording bug to be fixed so I could tell what the changes actually *were*. As it is, I treat "weather" as a random factor.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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