Only rain in Brindleton Bay

@siirysiir 

Yeah, the weather is some worlds can be rather harsh and I agree with you, some of them could use a little toning down.  But there is a way in game to deal with the weather when you get tired of whatever the weather is.  Just buy a Dr. June's weather machine for the lot and fully upgrade it.  Then you can change the weather (and season) more to your liking so you don't have to play the game with weather you get tired of or just don't like.

One thing about the weather machine though, is that it does not hold it's settings so you will need to reset it whenever you return from travel or on load in to the lot when you restart the game.

Hope this helps.

@siirysiir You can try disabling thunderstorms in your weather settings in the Game Options menu. This not only eliminates most thunderstorms, but it seems to cut down on the overall number of rainy days too. You'll still see thunderstorms on Mystery Weather days, but those are fairly rare for Brindleton Bay summers, plus they typically last only a few hours instead of an entire day (or an entire week!). I use this setting and this is a sample of the weather I get for a summer week in Brindleton Bay:

Two days of some rain and five days of sun. This is typical in my game for Brindleton Bay with thunderstorms disabled. I also use the 28-day seasons, so it seems like I get a little bit more rain early in the summer and less rain towards the end. You can always reenable the Thunderstorms at any time, like if you wish to do some Dracula's castle scenario in Forgotten Hollows or something and Vlad wants some lightning ;-D

I love playing Brindleton Bay, it's my favorite place in the game. Especially in the fall and winter. I hope this all works out for you, it's such a lovely world to play.

@siirysiir  I love Brindleton Bay; it's one of my favorite worlds! but yeah, the weather in summer is AWFUL. The weather machine or having a mermaid in the house helps a lot, or, as @RandomBuzziness  suggested, turning off thunderstorms.

Hiya and thank you for all the suggestions you lovely folks!

I'm aware of the weather machine and the option to turn the stormy weather off. For my play style I wouldn't often use the weather machine since it's not a very realistic device and for this specific save it just kinda doesn't suit the world I've built. And as for the option to turn it off - this is the more feasible option in my mind but it's Quite The Hassle to keep toggling it on and off again since I play rotationally and this means changing not only households but worlds too. Also I would like the occasional thunder since it's definitely part of summer and therefore I wouldn't want to get completely rid of it. Just not all thunder all week please!

What I was hoping for was a more pleasant playing experience where I don't need to go back and forth with weather settings just because some world has its weather tuning too extreme. I am saying that in comparison to other worlds BB is too much, it's off-balance and that's something I think could be addressed by the devs. Maybe it's just me but in my opinion they didn't do a great job with how the weather is functioning in BB and I'm hoping it could be adjusted since it seems to be an exception among other worlds where the balance between different weather conditions is better and successfully portrays different local climates. 

I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest to the dev team to rethink Brindleton Bay weather since I'm pretty sure minor adjustments would go a long way. Weather variation seems balanced to me in other worlds and I'm sure it could be in Brindleton Bay too.

@siirysiir  Another suggestion I've heard, which might not work for rotational play, is to play shorter seasons. Bad weather lasts a shorter time during a shorter season because it gradually changes between seasons. (If I'm playing four or more households I want four week seasons, darn it!)

I think it's a reasonable suggestion! but I also suspect they have so many things on their plate that they might not get to it.  ☹️ 

The rain in Brindleton Bay is so annoying, and for me, without the rain it is the laggiest homeworld. And then when it's raining 24/7 it makes the game unplayable when living/visiting there.

If you play with vampires often, like me, living in Brindleton Bay is sometimes helpful because it's often cloudy so vampires can go outside in the day unharmed, but the rain and the thunderstorms are pretty excessive...

To be honest, I think only kids and toddlers should be scared of thunderstorms.