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Hello all, So after a quick Google search, I did not come up with the answer to my question, so I decided to make a thread here about it and hopefully some of you can help me with this.

My question is about weather patterns (not related to 1.8 at all, current version). I don't know much about how weather is generated for a Minecraft world but I have noticed some areas don't receive rain as often as others, such as my location of my city when I first settled there, I hardly ever got rainfall, but up until about 2 weeks ago I've been seeing that change rapidly and have been getting storms about every other Minecraft day.

So, Do weather patterns for a given "chunk" of your world change?

Is that even possible? I thought it was either raining everywhere, or not raining. With the exception of over desert areas. One of my worlds has two bases about half the map away connected by rail, and the weather is always constant for the whole trip, except when I go over the random wedge of desert in the middle of the world.

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Is that even possible? I thought it was either raining everywhere, or not raining.

Are you joking? Have you not a saw the huge walls of instant rain and other the other square no rain?(Anywhere, not just from a grassland to a desert)

It only rains in certain spots from what I've gathered so far.

But what I'm asking is if the frequency at which rain occurs differs through out the hours spent on a world.

global warming.

but yeah, its happened to me before on a couple of worlds.

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global warming.

...Seems quite legit...

I must go carbon neutral...

• Plant more trees
• slow my burning of coal
• use Charcoal
• anything other that comes to mind later

Thanks mate, your words of wisdom gave me an epiphany and deeper realization of my human error of ruining my planet.

I remember in a pc world I had a nice little area with no snow. I had rain quite a bit off and on for many many many days. After a while it started snowing... a few days later it was a permanently frozen wasteland. Is this what you were talking about?

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I remember in a pc world I had a nice little area with no snow. I had rain quite a bit off and on for many many many days. After a while it started snowing... a few days later it was a permanently frozen wasteland. Is this what you were talking about?

Relatively this is what I'm talking about. Not necessarily certain places going away with their snow and certain places getting colder, but simply if the rate at which certain chunks has rain changes. It's what I kind of noticed in my world where my city is located.

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Relatively this is what I'm talking about. Not necessarily certain places going away with their snow and certain places getting colder, but simply if the rate at which certain chunks has rain changes. It's what I kind of noticed in my world where my city is located.

I believe it does. Yet I am not certain. Dry spells, wet spells, I have noticed both of these in my many hours of play time.

In the past I have had lots of back to back showers for a month or more of in game time, and then fewer, then very little rain for another month. It seems to be quite diverse (Could just be my imagination though) The wiki might have some info on the subject. Only 4J, Notch, and Jeb would know for sure otherwise.

Here's notch saying that weather it's a global thing.

http://twitter.com/notch/status/55984678875836416

Hmm, good question. I'd like to know this as well. Have you been sleeping less? It could explain why.

Instances of weather typically occur every 7 Minecraft days (might differ in some worlds), and last for 15 minutes. When you sleep in a bed, the timer for weather resets. If it is already raining or snowing, the weather will stop upon waking.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Weather

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Hmm, good question. I'd like to know this as well. Have you been sleeping less? It could explain why.

Instances of weather typically occur every 7 Minecraft days (might differ in some worlds), and last for 15 minutes. When you sleep in a bed, the timer for weather resets. If it is already raining or snowing, the weather will stop upon waking.
http://www.minecraft...et/wiki/Weather

Interesting. Maybe it's different in Xbox, or on the newer PC versions. But quite often I will be stuck with rain that lasts for up to an hour, and I try going to sleep hoping it will stop, but it is still raining when I wake up. I find it really annoying.

I have never experienced what you're talking about. The rain seems like a fairly regular pattern, even among different worlds, and it happens everywhere (with the exception of desert biomes). I've ridden rails from one corner of the map to the other, and it is always raining (snowing in arctic biomes) everywhere or nowhere. The only variation I've noticed is that it doesn't always seem to thunder every time it rains, but maybe I just haven't noticed it at times?

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I have never experienced what you're talking about. The rain seems like a fairly regular pattern, even among different worlds, and it happens everywhere (with the exception of desert biomes). I've ridden rails from one corner of the map to the other, and it is always raining (snowing in arctic biomes) everywhere or nowhere. The only variation I've noticed is that it doesn't always seem to thunder every time it rains, but maybe I just haven't noticed it at times?

Thunder is only in storms. There is a reg sunny day, rain, snow, and storms.

It also only rains within a certain block range of you when it is raining, I read something about it before, just can't remember where.