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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5338811" data-attributes="member: 29398">There's some other variables to consider:How much water does this planet have, and where is most of it (e.g. light side, dark side, both)? (this would drive weather patterns)Where is the land and how is it distributed? (ocean currents, if they exist, also drive weather and are a big transporter of heat/cold)How much atmosphere is there, and how much cloud cover? (more of either means less temperature variance between light and dark sides)I've been giving this some serious thought of late, mostly along the lines of what would happen to a world's weather if its axis had no tilt; and I suspect it'd be much less variable than ours in any given place even beyond the obvious removal of seasons; because so much of our weather is driven by trying to redistribute the uneven seasonal heating we get. If the planet's truly locked *and* with no tilt to its axis I think the weather patterns would also almost lock in - there'd be places where it's always sunny but 50 miles away there'd be endless rain...Lanefan</blockquote>