DE: Funny weather we're having, eh?

[bjornwilde]

 It is unseasonably hot in my neck of the woods. Which has me thinking, what is the climate like in our various fictions? And does your character enjoy it or do they just deal with it?

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[a1enzo]

Climate and weather are foreign concepts in cyberspace. They do occasionally have snow, but that's not weather, it's electromagnetic noise.

[bjornwilde]

There may be no weather but it appears there will be new canon. = ]

[a1enzo]

I... am aware of this. Given that the main characters of the new series are Users who enter cyberspace, I am very carefully suspending all judgement for now. (The previous description I saw used the phrase "four ordinary teens." *twitch*)

[bjornwilde]

Oh...I hadn't read that far. Damn, that kind of misses the point of the show and makes it Tron.

[a1enzo]

Either Tron or bad ReBoot fanfiction. Yes.

[innerbrat]

I want some of that unseasonable hot. Fancy sending it over here?

Anyway, Gotham is in my mind permanently EITHER New York in high summer when it's oppressive and miserable and you can't move without chokingon dirty hot air, OR New York in October/November, when it's stormy and wet and dark and wet and cold but not cold enough for snow. Never snow, because snow is too clean. Frozen black slush, maybe. Dick, who spends a lot of his time in short shorts, loves the heat, not so much a fan of the cold.

Star City is fictional San Francisco, which I've only visited in July so... foggy and wet, not too warm, but nevertheless pretty sunny, and definitely an improvement over Gotham. Dinah kind of loves it - she's beginning to suspect she was always a West Coast girl with the bad luck to be born on the wrong side of the country.

The South Pole is.. um, cold, snow-covered, storm-prone. Cold. Korra's actually fond of it, but only because she's used to wrapping up warm and she can always access a fire if she needs to :)

[bjornwilde]

Awesome icon is awesome.

[bjornwilde]

Selina: See answer above for Dick. Totally the same thing for TV Gotham.

Hank lives in West Virginia currently, so all the typical weather the state gets, unless there's some mutant about.

Ethan currently lives in London and I'm afraid I have no idea what London weather is like so I don't know if the show's weather matches reality. I think he likes the cooler temps after so much time in the Southwestern US.

Rollo lives in Kattegat which is in what we would call Denmark, so cold and moody or temperate and moody. Sorry, was I answering for my pups usual temperament? ; p

Sam lives in Washington DC and I would think the weather matches what would normally be there. I think he likes it well enough.

Izana lives on a generation space craft with an artificial environment. Still plants do grow there so I would say they have manufactured temperate weather. About the only variation of pleasant summer day they show is a light snow fall. Izana can't say how she feels about it as they've never experienced actual weather.

Ahsoka, Asajj, and Quinlan all live onboard space ships, so they don't apply. I think they each like experiencing weather from time to time but it's not an important part of life. Well, I think maybe Ahsoka and Asajj miss it more than Quin does.

Luidaeg grew up in what becomes the United Kingdom. She likes the weather of San Francisco much better, though she does miss huge storms.

[onceaviking]

You can actually still find Kattegat on the map :)
It's the bit of sea between Denmark and Sweden.

[bjornwilde]

Oh interesting. I had seen it show up in Google searches as near or part of Denmark but hadn't actually looked or read farther cause I am lazy. Interesting that it's a sea in our world and not a town.

[onceaviking]

I actually don't know if it has ever been the name of a settlement.

The stories I know has Ragnar Lothbrog living in Lejre instead. Which is quite different from the majestic coastline of the series.

[bjornwilde]

Pretty! Although at first I thought those were sheep and so of course Ragnar would be happy there. Then I realized they were rocks. Still looks like fertile land for a farmer. = ]

[i_am_your_host]

This is why I suggested a DE in which our pups say what they think about other pups' canons. Because I can envision Eric rolling his eyes at the Vikings TV show.

[onceaviking]

I think it is a lovely show - and I still get a bit eye-roll-y from time to time.

[athelstanthescribe]

At least they haven't started talking about 16th century Druidic runes, Sleepy Hollow.

[onceaviking]

Heh.

[ceitfianna]

Why West Virginia for Hank? I thought they were still training in the mansion in New York.

[bjornwilde]

D'oh! Sorry, I was so used to him being at Division X, I forgot we moved forward in canon. (Wish i had a face palm icon for Hank or Beast)

[ceitfianna]

No worries, that's why I was checking.

[hecu_marine]

Climate in Gordon and Shephard's world is rather badly skewed. The Combine arrived and slaughtered a massive chunk of the human race, putting an end to kind of a lot of human greenhouse gas output, but I have no idea what their own machinery may or may not have done to the atmosphere before humans finally destroyed it. Suffice it to say that weather oscillates all over the place and that I wouldn't want to live anywhere north of about Delaware, or anywhere coastal, or in Tornado Alley, in that world.

Ellen and Fawkes' world has the continental United States in a nuclear summer scenario, unless the upcoming Fallout 4 shows a different weather pattern for the Boston area (which it probably won't but we'll see- they did make it rain in Zion National Park in Honest Hearts, after all). Ellen does not like it much but Ellen does not really approve of weather in general. She grew up in a completely climate controlled environment, and while she's learned to adapt to variability, it's still weird for things to be different from one day to the next- and with a baseline of 'really unpleasant'. Fawkes is Zen enough to take each day's climate/weather changes as they come, but that's Fawkes.

Edward Kenway's world is... well, in Europe the climate's a bit weird historically, but he's in the Caribbean so all the weather data we have for 1715 doesn't mean a damn thing to him. He's dealing with tropical and warm and he's good with that except when being on a boat puts him in danger of huricanes.

Stacker Pentecost is dealing with Hong Kong in January. We see a lot of rain and people in coats larger than they really need because Guillermo del Toro thought it would make for good symbology. He uses a big umbrella and deals with it.

Varric is from Kirkwall, which is a coastal medieval vaguely European city in a fantasy setting. We don't get that many mentions of what the climate or weather are like there except that since most of Thedas is in the southern hemisphere, the further north you go the warmer it gets, and Kirkwall is well north of the country that is supposed to be 'like England but on the mainland and also it smells of wet dog'. I think Varric's just happy not to be living underground like the Orzammar dwarves.

Santo lives in Mexico City in 1967. The climate is basically real-world Mexico City's 1967 climate, if a little clearer in terms of air and a little less likely to be rainy because you can't film in the rain very well. He quite likes it.

Wee Mad Arthur lives in Ankh-Morpork at the moment, where the climate is decent if a bit rainy at times, but also includes the Smell. You get used to that. Eventually.

[sdelmonte]

Swamp Thing lives in the bayou outside Houma, LA. It feels right. Only it doesn't because he is probably more attuned to global climate change than anyone else. He's just not sure what to do about it, especially since some plants want it to be warmer and damper.

Knox is from Gotham. See above.

Kirk is from a future when they have something called the Weather Modification Net. Meaning that somewhere along the line, they found a way to mitigate the worst weather without trying to control it. Because weather control is impossible, and would make things worse. I work on the assumption they've fixed global climate control, but I've never actually seen evidence that New York isn't under six feet of water. Locally speaking, Jim likes San Francisco weather, but doesn't think about it much. When you've lived half your life on a spaceship, any change in the weather is welcome.

Cyborg's home of Jump City is basically San Fran, only a bit less rainy. He likes it. He can't stand the cold only because it's hard on some of his parts.

Charlie doesn't miss the misery of Hub City, smack dab in the Midwest, home to stifling summers and the occasional tornado. But after years of Bar weather, a little Midwest heat might be nice.

[hecu_marine]

I am never going to get over the twitching about the Question's city that set in the day I learned Boston's nickname has been 'the Hub' since Oliver Wendell Holmes.

[sdelmonte]

When the city was first named, I think it was meant to be the Boston version of Metropolis=NYC. A place that wasn't a place. Later, Denny O'Neil decided he wanted to turn Hub City into a hyper-realistic version of East St. Louis, so he could send the Question into the worst place in America and see what happened. Calling it Hub City gave Denny cover when people asked what he was really writing about.

[hecu_marine]

Ah, fair enough.

[fluffiest_archadian]

Sherral: Ivalice has an extremely diverse climate, being as it is a region that covers three continents with what appears to be land-mass approximately equal to Europe, North America, and Australia put together. Sherral comes from a very icy, very cold, very mountainous place - and is now stationed in Dalmasca, which is a very hot, very arid desert with semi-regular wet seasons.

The rest of the Empire and Rozarria runs the gamut, though, and part of that is how big it is, and part of it is that high concentrations of Mist alter weather. So you have massive forests like the Golmore Jungle, almost tropical weather around the Phon Coast, and Archades itself has a climate roughly equivalent to Italy or the south of France.

Eden: Daybreak Town's weather is constant. Day or night, it is always a somewhat cool but overall temperate temperature, with no rain. The only time the weather varies is when the Heartless manage to get in.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond actually comes from a (badly constructed) world with varied climates! And isn't much from any one place these days, either, so it's kind of not applicable.

Henry lives in Storybrooke, Maine. Assume weather is Maine weather.

Lois is currently living in Smallville, KS, with Metropolis also in Kansas because that show is weird. Assume Kansas weather (when some silly plot isn't messing with it, anyway...)

Tavi, like Eriond, lives in a full (not the best constructed) world; while he's never had to deal with deserts, other than that there's quite a range of climate. It's fair to say, though, that he heartily dislikes the weather--or rather he will in about six months when it goes haywire and a large part of his job becomes trying to keep it ripping everything apart. Fun times!

[genarti]

Enjolras and Cosette are both from France in the 1830s, in as near to the real world as makes no difference for this question. (While Victor Hugo is utterly a Romantic and believes in Symbolic Weather, he breaks the laws of physics more for lighting than for meteorology.) Anyway, I believe Europe as a whole was somewhat colder at the time than it is nowadays, so there was more snow in the winter and probably milder summers, but otherwise it's pretty analogous.

Enjolras, as part of his general tendency to try to dwell on an abstract plane of pure thought, tends to mostly ignore the weather whether it's fair or foul, and just deal with what he can't ignore. Cosette doesn't like weather she can't enjoy being outside in, but otherwise she likes it -- she's happy to walk and garden in warm weather, or in cold weather while bundled up warmly, or anything in between.

Thor lives in disco space Viking comics Asgard, which is... maybe a planetoid?? We see it in snow and in warm weather, and it looks generally photogenic no matter what. Uhh. I've been avoiding having to make decisions on things like "overall climate" and "how long seasons last" and so forth, but I'm gonna say that Thor enjoys pretty much all weather! He's largely impervious to heat and cold, unless they're extremes sufficient to kill a human fast, and heaven knows he's just fine with rain.

Kazul lives in a fairytale version of Europe -- picture the way the forest is depicted in Disney's Sleeping Beauty, and you'll have a general idea, although Kazul lives in drier rockier mountains nearby. Unlike actual Europe, though, the area never seems to have winter -- nobody comments on that, but we also never see any indication that winter, uh, happens. Anyway, she's a dragon! She's fine with weather! She probably enjoys storms, but cold makes her sluggish and cranky.

[merryeccentricities]

" Disco space Viking Asgard" is the best description of it ever, and also where I want my retirement home. :D

[genarti]

I stole the whole "alien disco space Viking" bit from hellotailor's glorious Thor costuming review, and I use it with various adjective combinations and wild abandon. Thank you, hellotailor, for your gift to my vocabulary.

And ahaha, yes. Best retirement home catering ever, too! FEASTS FOR ALL. FEASTS AND GLITTER.

[gods_that_haunt_me]

If Floki knew about the disco Valkyries, he would flip.

[dejah_thoris]

It's actually sorta kinda raining here today, which is just cruel at this point.

Barsoom is not really Mars. It's a fictional Mars, where the climate is akin to the Arizona desert. Barsoom has less that 3% surface water, so there is no rain cycle. It's blazing hot in the day, but the temperatures drop at night. It is cooler at the poles, and blindingly hot at the equator. Also, sand storms, with extreme winds that will etch flesh from the bone and if you're lucky, lightning!

[doctorscaryteeth]

Fallen London's weather is similar to contemporaneous Surface London - kinda damp, often sorta chilly but doesn't get very cold or hot - but the weather is far milder; strong winds and proper rain are fairly rare, although there's plenty of fog. Even clouds are uncommon. Occasionally the drips of condensation from the roof form drizzle; full-fledged rain happens on, like, one storylet ever. I've headcanoned more weather variation than the canonical narration says there is, because the Neath is huge and has its own sea (the Unterzee, which if Sunless Sea is anything to go by is a rival for the largest lakes on Earth or bigger) and even sufficiently large buildings have clouds form inside them on humid days.

The weather actually does change somewhat with the seasons, though. Or at least, it has a notable hottest point and coldest point. The hot weather comes in false-summer, and with it soupy humidity and spore-fever, which seems to be kind of like spring allergy season for everyone. It can technically be cured but the side effects of the cures are worse than the spore-fever.

The cold weather comes in December, when it snows. Sort of. It's not really snow, it's lacre, which is the Echo Bazaar's frozen tears. They get dispersed throughout the city through means unknown. Lacre has soporific and hallucinogenic properties, as well as some straight up supernatural stuff, and also it stinks. (Smells like ammonia and oil of roses, canon says.) Touching it is mostly safe (people build snowmen with it) but if you eat it -- which you have multiple options to do -- you pass out and have weird dream-visions. Also you can build golems out of it, known as 'nomen'. It starts melting in mid-January and is basically gone by February.

The other complicating factor is the dead storm god hanging around the Neath, who occasionally possesses people a little bit, and those people can generate a bit of localized stormy wind and rain.

[rudderless]

Clementine: Boiling Hot almost all the time.
Dixie: Varied, but usually similar to Clementine's.
Juliet: Sunny, warm, temperate
Pinkie Pie: Varied; experiences all four seasons
Eponine: varied as well.