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[Ailith Tycane]

map

 

Do the maps account for how high or low those places are in regards to sea level? Because that can make a big difference too.

[NoForgiveness]

Im assuming(and hoping) that that desert is the one in the western approach(I think that's what its called?). If so, its a desert because of the darkspawn, not because of any over abundance of heat.  Also without Trees/mountains and whatever else to obscure sunlight/heat, its very easy for heat to just linger all day and disappear completely at night.

[Maraas]

Nevermind.

[littlebrightpanda]

Aren't Rome and New York on the same latitude as well? And look how different the climate is between those two, although they are both close to the coasts of their specific continents. Therefore, as there is quite a distance between the Korcari Wilds and the Western Approach, their different climates are entirely possible. 

[Russian Berserker]

Nevermind.

ok?

[Maraas]

ok?

Felt a bit snarky, but then thought better of it.

[L. Han]

Well, having people consistently throw fireballs and calling down fire storms ought to cause some queer weather. 

[BlazinAces30]

Well, having people consistently throw fireballs and calling down fire storms ought to cause some queer weather. 

yes the answer is fireballs 

love this 

[ladyoflate]

The Korcari Wilds are canonically pretty dang misty and have a lot of tree cover, which would contribute to day-to-day relative coolness. They're also closer to the water, which creates a more temperate climate. It's entirely possible they just happen to be near the Thedosian equivalent of the Labrador current.

 

Whereas the Western Approach actually seems slightly north of the Korcari, and since Thedas seems to be in the Southern Hemisphere of whatever planet, it's closer to the equator. Add in some unmoderate-by-the-presence-of-water winds, minimal plantlife cover, and possibly some Blight, you get a warm desert.

[Russian Berserker]

The Korcari Wilds are canonically pretty dang misty and have a lot of tree cover, which would contribute to day-to-day relative coolness. They're also closer to the water, which creates a more temperate climate. It's entirely possible they just happen to be near the Thedosian equivalent of the Labrador current.

 

Whereas the Western Approach actually seems slightly north of the Korcari, and since Thedas seems to be in the Southern Hemisphere of whatever planet, it's closer to the equator. Add in some unmoderate-by-the-presence-of-water winds, minimal plantlife cover, and possibly some Blight, you get a warm desert.

[ladyoflate]

Yup, 'The Frozen Seas'. And the Western Approach is clearly north of the Korcari Wilds and in a rainshadow. It's not exactly up by Seheron, but there's plenty of reason for it to be relatively hot and certainly extremely dry.

[Mukora]

Isn't the Western Approach directly next to a chasm that goes, like, straight down to the deep roads, and constantly has darkspawn climbing up from it?

 

Yeah, that'd do it.

[Russian Berserker]

It shouldn't be hot.....

[ladyoflate]

I'm on the same latitude and in the same state as the Appalachian Mountains, but it's freakin' boiling here and a couple years ago they had a day or two of snow. In July.

 

The Piedmont and the Mountains can have quite similar elevation in places, but it's still boiling right up to the edge of said mountains because they've got the most trees and streams and crap and the rest of the state is just open farmland. It'd be worse if we didn't even have that. It's possible. Entirely.

[littlebrightpanda]

What we are looking here is partially maritime vs. continental climate. The Korcari Wilds appear to be pretty unshielded from the Frozen Sea, which means high precipitation and a lot of fog (I got that in Amsterdam currently) with a relatively stable temperatures (not very hot, not very low, sorta in the middle).

 

The Western Approach is not only shielded by mountains, which can catch rain if the mountains are high enough, but also pretty deep into the continent, meaning no access to a large body of water that could influence the climate. That's continental climate, which means high temperature differences, of which you can find a description of in Gaider's book "Asunder". Not a lot of rain usually means tundra-like environment, not a lot of vegetation. As the Western Approach is unshielded and without clouds, unlike the Korcari Wilds, the sun can have a much greater influence on the climate, turning the tundra into a desert. 

[Mukora]

It shouldn't be hot.....

People have provided several explanations for why this is not true at all.

[Wulfram]

The argument isn't that it shouldn't be desert, but it wouldn't be blistering

[Mukora]

And people have explained that it very much can and should be blistering.

 

There are similar real-world locations on similar latitudes.

[littlebrightpanda]

For something to be considered a desert (which the Western approach is not), there have to be massive temperature differences (which is wrong, it's the rainfall that matters, thanks Sasha Braus to pointing that out). Massive temperature differences between seasons occur in Steppes and there are different types of it with more and less rainfall. Now it could go from relatively warm to really, really cold, but any type of great temperature differences would do. If you look at the enviroment around the Western Approach, it is much more likely to be hot than cold. If you look around the Korcari Wilds, it is much more likely to be cold than hot.

 

Mountains, access to large bodies of water, clouds- all play a role in the climate of a specific region and if you look at that, the Western Approach and the Korcari Wilds could never have the same climate. I would be pretty angry if they would have. 

 

You can also see with the towns around the waking sea we have visited, Kirkwall and Amaranthine, they all have a similar climate, because the Waking Sea is influencing it. Just look at the Mediterranean. I bet Val Royeaux has similar climate as well. 

 

*I just looked it up, and according to the Dragon Age-Wiki, the Western Approach is a Steppe, not a desert. 

[zambingo]

Maybe Thedas was created with Protomatter.

[glances at Dr. David Marcus]

[zambingo]

Well, having people consistently throw fireballs and calling down fire storms ought to cause some queer weather.

So something like this?

[Hanako Ikezawa]

For something to be considered a desert, there have to be massive temperature differences.

Wrong. To be considered a desert, the area has to get less than ten inches of rain a year.

[Mornmagor]

Has anyone said "A Wizard did it" yet?

 

[Ailith Tycane]

Death Valley in California is almost on the exact same latitude as Carmel (rainy and cold) as well as the Grand Canyon (snows in the winter)...

 

There are different factors that matter for climate here, I think this should be clear by now.

[AtreiyaN7]

These are all pictures of Hawaii:

 

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You can have a lot of variation in climate and enviroment within a single place or region. 

 

^^^ This about a thousand times. I live in Hawaii (on Oahu), and I can tell you that while it's a lovely and tropical here, the Big Island actually does get snow on Mauna Kea (it's where all the major observatories in the state are located) because of the altitude.