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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helium3" data-source="post: 3021611" data-attributes="member: 31301">I'm not a climatoligist either so the arid/steppe portion was an educated guess on my part. Basically, the distance that prevailing winds travel over water before reaching the coast of Gerrin is pretty short (about 1400 miles) and there's a cold current flowing down the western cost. Those two factors got me thinking that the amount of moisture in the air coming in from the coast wouldn't be all that high. Certainly not as moist as the air coming in from the Pacific over the west coast of North America. But then, I don't really know how long it would take for air flowing over a relatively cool body of water to take on enough moisture to produce significant amounts of rain throughout the year. An argument could probably be made that the flat-ness of the Soze basin before it gets to the mountains would result in a more arid (grassland) environment nearer the coast and a wetter (and forested) environment closer to the mountains. Or maybe its all forested. I think that other parts of the map would be easier to defend then this particular part of Gerrin, since there are more obvious Earth analogues.Ultimately, it doesn't really matter. If you want there to be a large temperate rain forest in the Soze basin, then that's what's there. Particularly in the case of Gerin, I don't have a real clear idea of what the continent's local climate zones would really look like. Besides, the climate work I'm doing is as make believe as the rest of what everyone else is doing. I'm not really trying to create a scientific world. Rather, I'm trying to generate guidelines for people who are coming in without any ideas about what goes where.</blockquote>

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