Turn rain chances UP again

[Geo.]

1 hour ago, Alyssa McCarthy said:

Rain just destroys out door RP

Hmm, quite comparable to realistic portrayal of having your plans tossed out the window and needing to alter what you're going to do in respect of the weather. 

[Alyssa McCarthy]

2 minutes ago, Geo. said:

Hmm, quite comparable to realistic portrayal of having your plans tossed out the window and needing to alter what you're going to do in respect of the weather. 

Not even close to comparable.

 

In LA’s summer, it’s entirely unrealistic to have your plans tossed out of the window due to poor weather because the weather is always great.

[arandomgamer]

Yes please. A few days a month in which the whole day is rainy/windy would be nice. But not 5 min rains followed by sun.

[Stanty]

6 hours ago, arandomgamer said:

Yes please. A few days a month in which the whole day is rainy/windy would be nice. But not 5 min rains followed by sun.

Maybe not a whole day but at least a few hours at a time.

[Wisci]

10 hours ago, Alyssa McCarthy said:

the weather is always great.

The weather is usually great. Bad weather exists in California. Surprise weather exists. It's just less likely than other regions. If we wanted to be realistic we should be turning on that gross Smog weather that makes everything yellow green all the time instead of EXTRA SUNNY at all times.

 

There's other clear / sunny weather patterns too that get left mostly unused for some reason.

Edited June 21, 2021 by Wisci

[Stiggz]

No, really glad we’re actually trying to mirror California finally

[Rhy Rhy]

We already don't portray California to a 1:1 mirror so why not, rain is amazing.

[eTaylor]

This just comes down to personal preference. Rain sucks. 

[moulton]

Los Angeles, California	United States
Precipitation	33.7 days	106.2 days
Sunny	284 days	205 days
Avg. July High	83.6°	85.8°
Avg. Jan. Low	45.9°

 

This is literally per year on average.

[Alyssa McCarthy]

9 hours ago, Wisci said:

The weather is usually great. Bad weather exists in California. Surprise weather exists. It's just less likely than other regions. If we wanted to be realistic we should be turning on that gross Smog weather that makes everything yellow green all the time instead of EXTRA SUNNY at all times.

 

There's other clear / sunny weather patterns too that get left mostly unused for some reason.

 

Does it really and with any regularity? I don't think it does & you'll be looking at some very extreme examples to find them. I certainly think it's a waste of time scripting freak weather conditions that happen less than once every few years. The amount of rain we had in December on the server was more rain than LA has seen in decades.

 

There is a reason California has huge problems facing it with water shortages, a desert on it's doorstep and seasonal problem with dry forest fires. 

 

So far this month, downtown LA has measured 0.02 inches in rain (or 0.5mm), which is basically less than a few minutes of shower on a single day. To compare this to London, London had 50x this amount of rain in a single day this very month.... (and it's not even been that wet in the uk!)

 

It  simply does not rain for huge periods of time & on the sparse occasion it does, it's a very brief shower which is gone as quick as it started.

 

When it does rain, it's often gone as quick as it started. I've stood outdoors in LA, felt the rain on my arms & looked up, but before I've even had chance to decide what to do about it, or even time to walk across the road, the rain has stopped.

 

That's the reality of summers in Los Angeles & outside of some extreme edge cases, rain is minimal (read, for all intents and purposes non-existent) over the summer months.

 

Edited June 21, 2021 by Alyssa McCarthy