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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pillars of Hercules" data-source="post: 958033" data-attributes="member: 577">The other side of the ledgerVery interesting.  Perhaps I can add the other side, being a Texan and more worried about drought than constant rain.Although this summer has been wet so far thanks to El Nino, Texas usually begs for rain.  I cannot imagine being in a place like Seattle (or apparently Boston) where drought is unimaginable.  Down here, the drought in Colorado has gotten so bad that the Rio Grande is bone dry, and actually no longer reaches the Gulf of Mexico!  Mexico and the US are fighting over Mexico's alleged over-use of water flowing from Mexico into the Rio Grande.  Here is another way for weather to affect a campaign - the weather gets bad enough that people come into conflict for the remaining scarce resources.In fact, I would say that Texas would be very foreign to you, Piratecat.  We don't have the seasons you are used to.  Winter is usually dry and cold only for a week or so at a time when a front (a "blue norther") comes in.  Spring is beautiful, 70s and clear, but it usually begins in February and ends in April!  Then (except in El Nino years), April and May are wet with temps from the high 60s to the high 90s.  Then comes summer.  92-100 degrees (or more) and dry as a bone most years.  Water restrictions are becoming common even in central and east Texas, when in the past only the desert west had them.Finally, summer ends with the late September to October(!) rainy season.  Late October through December is usually a lovely fall.  No leaves turn, since most trees are scrub oak.  It's usually in the 70s.Thus, Texas is really a semi-arid, even psuedo-tropical climate dominated by when it rains and when it doesn't.  Travel to somewhere like Texas would probably lead to "season-shock" for those used to temperate climes, just as it blew me away when I had to shovel snow in Chicago - in April!Finally, when the storms come, they are usually very violent, much like the true desert storm described above.</blockquote>

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