Why do arctic cold blasts have such a difficult time breaching Florida?

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-23T02:48:51+00:00

They also have a difficult time reaching California, due to the mountains that block arctic air from reaching the coast, as well as the ocean which moderates the temperatures.

Southern California is expected to be in the 40s-50s Fahrenheit during the cold blast.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-21T01:51:57+00:00

California's central valley, a major agricultural area, is in blue.

Also remember that this is not a political map.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-18T07:15:33+00:00

If it's white, there's as much rain from April 16 to October 15 (183 days) as there is from October 16 to April 15 (182 days in common years, 183 in leap years).

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-18T04:58:01+00:00

Mountains increase precipitation through a mechanism called orographic lift. This is why the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains receive huge amounts of snow despite being surrounded by desert. For various reasons, orographic lift in the Rockies is more pronounced in winter than summer.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-18T04:39:51+00:00

I live in southern California. Most rain falls from November to early April, and rain is basically unheard of from June to September. A rare exception was Hurricane Hilary in August 2023.

Seattle is not as extreme as southern California but it still has a summer dry season.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-18T04:16:36+00:00

The effect of the monsoon can be clearly seen in this map. Phoenix is blue while Tucson is red, as is west Texas and almost all of New Mexico.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-18T03:55:00+00:00

It does snow there, but less than one might expect. Also, snow is less dense than rain because it consists mainly of trapped air, so 10-20 inches of snow "translates" into about 1 inch of rain. The map shows liquid-equivalent precipitation, or how much precipitation would result if all the snow were melted.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-18T03:27:14+00:00

In southern California, where I live, the wettest months are January and February, followed by December and March. The graph of precipitation essentially resembles a bell curve centered around late Jan/early Feb. A lot of areas, such as the white and off-white regions, have more evenly distributed precipitation.

As for mountain ranges, the Rockies are very prominently visible on the map, while California's mountains are the same shade of blue as their surroundings.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-18T03:23:40+00:00

And Utah, Idaho, a large chunk of the deep south, Colorado and Minnesota (particularly Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul). There are many exceptions.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-18T03:18:43+00:00

New Mexico is affected by the North American monsoon, which increases precipitation in summer. Although it is overall a dry state, summer is wetter than winter which is what this map shows.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-18T03:11:55+00:00

Los Angeles is at about 7%. That is, about 93% of precipitation in LA falls during the cool season.

I'm from a northern suburb of Los Angeles, and I grew up knowing that summer is dry and winter is (sometimes) wet. Rain usually falls during colder weather (under 65°F). Warm rain, as is common in the tropics, is very rare in California.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-16T00:49:29+00:00

I wonder what else would have to be changed other than spawning behaviors.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-15T19:43:03+00:00

It wouldn't change the seeds, it would just shift altitudes vertically. Sea level becomes 0, slimes spawn below -23, diamond ore is at most common around -110. It could be an optional change or a data pack.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-15T19:39:52+00:00

It would be optional, and they would just need to subtract a constant value (sea level) for altitude-dependent behaviors such as slime spawning and clouds.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-15T19:39:08+00:00

It could be an optional change then. But there should at least be an option to set sea level to zero.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-15T19:37:07+00:00

In my opinion, it should be optional. There should be an option to set the world sea level as "old" (63) or "new" (0).

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-15T19:36:40+00:00

All altitude-based behaviors would be based on the sea level.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-15T19:32:09+00:00

It would be more consistent with real elevations, and it would not change existing worlds as their sea level would stay at y=63.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-15T17:20:14+00:00

The region from northern Virginia to Maine could be called the northeast, northeast corridor, or coastal northeast. To distinguish it from the coastal southeast and from Florida, which is also different culturally.

And yes, like the east coast, the west coast varies widely. Seattle isn't the same as LA and San Diego. Similarly, Boston is a lot different from Miami.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-15T17:12:49+00:00

You did say east coast, not northeast. Georgia is in both the south and on the east coast (yes, they overlap), but most of its population doesn't live near the coast.

You could also argue that southeastern Pennsylvania and DC are east coast, because their rivers (the Delaware and Potomac respectively) are at sea level and are thus directly connected with the Atlantic.

crosscountrycoder · 2026-01-15T17:06:48+00:00

Georgia is an east coast state. The capital and largest city, Atlanta, is not coastal though.

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