Weather

The main feature of this game is the **timer** and its contents. It can mainly show us the actual, current time and day. But not only that.

It also shows the current weather at the moment. While time pass by, it's not just the day, the things at your surroundings and the lighting that changes, the weather does as well. But what the weather really does in the game?

Good weather effects can really make a game's environment feel real.These games really immerse you with their weather effects.
How weather can look in a video game it is not explored so much in that area. Some games do not bother with weather, especially when some games only take place indoors or within a small narrative time-frame. The games that tackle weather are often open-world and its narrative covers a large span of time.

What constitutes amazing weather effects is how real the weather feels, if it actually can influence how a player plays, and how dynamic the conditions are.
See more at:

Allison Stalberg (Apr. 20, 2021). "10 Games With The Best Weather Effects". Retrieved on April 17, 2022.

## Real Definition

In meteorology definitions, weather is the state of the atmosphere at a given moment, which can be interpreted under conventional scales that can consider the atmosphere as hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather events occur in the troposphere, the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere.

Weather can generally refer to day-to-day changes in temperature and precipitation, where climate is the term used to refer to average atmospheric conditions over a longer period of time. When the term is used without any qualification, "time" is understood to mean Earth time.

## Game ("simple") Definition

In the game, weather is only defined by water storage and it's a great source of water, but it's kind of rare in certain seasons.

Some can act the same, some can act different from one to another, and also how they change into a different weather. There are some weather spikes where the weather can change completely or stay the same, it's not that much, but here it is:

* 7h00 until 9h45;
* 10h00 until 16h45;
* 17h00 until 19h45;
* 20h00 until 3h45;
* 4h00 until 6h45

(Note: As the game gets updated, there are more time peak changes that might make rain more "common". This section is still subject to changes, because of that.)

## Weather Types

Here's a quick rundown that'll give you a little more background on all these current weathers.

And it's classified as **mostly common weather** in the game. Resuming: Sunny or clear means **there are no clouds in the sky...** *unfortunately... it won't happen anything, really.*
Along the Clear weather, this one also does raise your body temperature up, so be careful.
Also, this weather is more likely to cool down your temperature, or to keep it as it is in the moment.
Light rain, as you totally guessed by now, it's not that good to store water, but sometimes it's the one that remains for longer times than the other weathers.
For example: There's some cases where in daytime, the Light Rain only stayed until noon, and there's other cases where it rained for an entire day.
However, this type of weather also has a higher chance of causing Hypothermia, as well as having a high chance of making you sick.
Storms will mostly happen during the rain season but you will also be able to occasionally find them during other times of the year.
On a related note, moving through coastal environments now takes more time during heavy rain too, not just during storms.
Danger: This weather is most dangerous: makes you colder than ever, can destroy objects and structures and can affect your travelling through locations.

Another thing that is affected by weather is **Evaporation** or more specifically the evaporation rate of open containers. Clear sky has the highest evaporation rate per time unit, cloudy has a 0 evaporation rate and rainy weathers has negative evaporation since water is acumulated instead of lost, but only in placed containers like the Rain Catcher, well, or Water storage. With open containers you need to "collect rain" to gradually fill them up. (Since containers with lids are protected from weather and evaporation, they take 1 time unit to fill up when you "collect rain" with them.)

To be added:

* Raft unique different types of weather: Calm, Favorable Wind, Unfavorable Wind, Very Unfavorable Wind, and Storm Front.