Questions tagged [weather]
For questions related to the climate, temperature and precipitation that a world might experience. Compare [climate] and [seasons].
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How will the monsoons work in this boomerang-shaped supercontinent?
Back and forth, I have created a fantasy supercontinent shaped in the likeness of an asymmetrical boomerang, with its elbow enlarged to resemble a fish’s head pointing westward, its lifting arm long ...
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What would the weather and climate be like on an Earth-size Mars with an atmospheric pressure of 1 atm? [duplicate]
Assuming the planet still has the same atmospheric composition as the real-world Mars (95% CO2, 3% N2, and 1.3% Ar) and has a global temperature of 284K (10.85°C) based on the answer to my previous ...
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climate control and carbon sequestration via bulk air liquification
When there's a stationary high pressure ridge heat domes can form that increase the air temperature and decrease precipitation. But what if one were to kinda suction the air out of the atmosphere, ...
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Effects of Day/Night divide on airflow patterns on a binary planet
I'm currently working on a project with a binary planetary system (both planets are around .8 earth mass with some variation), and naturally, the planets are tidally locked to each other, leading to a ...
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How would weather on a Cube-World with uniform surface gravity behave?
In a cube-world with uniform surface gravity with mildly rounded corners, how would weather behave? The Cube-world is roughly earth-sized, with the edges rounded by about a hundred kilometers. Gravity ...
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Weather on a Flat, Infinite Sea
Imagine a vast sea, stretching out to encompass the horizon much like a real sea. But unlike such a sea, this sea sits upon a flat plain, and stretches out over 100 million miles in each direction(...
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Weather on a Hot Saturn
So, out of curiosity and for the purposes of a roleplay universe I am making, I am curious about the weather on a Hot Saturn. This planet, nearly identical in mass, composition and size to Saturn, is ...
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Precipitation on an outer exomoon heated by tidal heating
Following this question, how would rain behave on an outer system habitable moon (>5AU from a sun-like star) heated by tidal-heating? According to this page, an outer planet or moon with low ...
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What would happen to the overall climate in New England if the warm Jet Stream crossing the United States moved from its course further south?
I'm working on a post-apocalyptic story that will have various climate-related disasters across the United States, significantly contributing to the struggles of the people still managing to survive ...
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Building the geography/astrography of a "Cool Super Earth"
So I'm currently building the geography of my world. It's supposed to be a Super Earth approximately 2.3 times the size and 1.7 times the mass. It's gravity is slightly weaker and it has slightly ...
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Axis tilt, days, and a year [closed]
Hello I’m not really good at math. I was wondering what kind of effect a world with these attributes have: a 22 degree axis with 10 months, and and 307/306 days (7 months with 31 days, 3 months with ...
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How to calculate the tides for lake?
Assuming I have a lake on Earth shaped simply like an oval or circle with a consistent bottom slope and of otherwise arbitrary dimensions, how do I figure out what the resultant tidal range will be?
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Water distribution on tidally locked planet with small northern ocean
Possible repeat of this, but the northern ocean wasn't really addressed.
Picture a mars-like planet, with a rocky, mountainous southern hemisphere, and a flatter, low-elevation northern hemisphere. ...
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Would a planet whose sun is always in one place have weather?
The world I’m writing atm has a planet whose sun is described as being permanently moved above its North Pole. Because of a lack of technology (and interest) in outer space, they wouldn’t have a ...
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Climate on a Moon orbiting a primary in the habitable zone of a sunlike star
I created the following system (including a simulation in universe sandbox which seems stable):
Sun-like G-type star with same mass, density, radiation profile, diameter and luminosity as the Sun.
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