Reply To: The climate of Ulthuan

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the climate has as much to do with geology as it does meteorology

I think you meant to say geography, rather than geology; but unfortunately, it is a bit more complicated than this. Naples and New York are more or less placed at the same latitude, yet they have very different climates: in New York, it snows quite frequently and winters are cold, in Naples the climate is more temperate and very rarely snows. The main factor in the creation of climate is the way that air and water masses move around: even considering that everything else is similar to what we have on our planet (earlier I forgot to mention the role the composition of the atmosphere has in conserving or dissipating the temperature), a substantial difference in the ratio of land and water masses at the equator means massive differences, starting with the size of the cloud cover and the way that warm and cold currents go around (both air and water), which is what eventually creates the climate.