@PugLove888 - I know while I was playing at Applecart Acres, it was during the winter and it was very snowy. Educated guess, It seems likely the heaviest rains come in Summer. I wonder if the season was displayed in Kevin's video where he got buckets of rain. Maybe that could give a clue.
@iamsweetmystery , that is probably it since I'm playing in Spring. I would have to rewatch Kevin's video to know, though some people have the HUD hidden in videos.
Where I live the rainiest season is always in the Spring, and the second rainiest is in the Autumn. Summer is never the rainy season where I live! 😅🥵
@PugLove888 - I suspect the world is modeled after environments in and around areas like northern Texas, Oklahoma and such, given certain clues. I've lived in southern Texas for the last 6 years and we get a lot of our rain, and especially thunderstorms, in summer. Those areas further north are also more prone to snowy winters. We get some here, but its very little most times, if any at all.
@iamsweetmystery , I grew up in North Texas and I can assure you that May is our rainiest month on average! 😅That is followed by October. June would be next, but all the rain in June usually happens in the first half of the month, and technically Summer doesn't start until after that. July is our driest month. We sometimes get a little more rain in August when a tropical system wanders nearby from the Gulf, but this is never a guarantee. 😉 But this is why you in South Texas get more rain in the summer! It just doesn't always make its way up to North Texas.
I don't think Chestnut Ridge was modeled after north Texas, at least not how the real north Texas looks, more like what people think north Texas looks like, especially from people who have never been to Texas. North Texas is more plains and prairies, which extend up into North Dakota and even Canada. . Chestnut Ridge has too many rocks (mostly sandstone, which isn't prevalent in North Texas at all) and mesa-like structures and arches that I've seen in pictures of Utah (but Utah looks more reddish/rusty colored from what I've seen. There also might be some other states that have similar features, though it doesn't quite look like New Mexico either. So, it could be a mix of some different areas.
I can see with the color of the soil and rocks how one might think of Oklahoma, but Oklahoma looks more reddish or rusty colored as opposed to the more yellowish or ochre that I see in Chestnut Ridge. (Most areas in North Texas have more brownish soil as well as more limestone which is white). And again, the parts of Oklahoma that I've seen for the most part have been flat and more like a reddish version of Texas, since it is mostly part of the plains/prairies.
Granted, any state can have an area or pocket of a different terrain, but from what I can tell, this seems more to be like Utah, perhaps Zion National park, though I have never been there myself, only just looked at the photos that my relatives took when visiting there! It just doesn't look like North Texas at all. 😉
@PugLove888 - I guess it would be more accurate to say the environment looks like it was modeled after spaghetti westerns that supposedly took place in Texas. As far as rain goes, though, we do get most of ours here, from what I've seen, in the summer. It's likely got something to do with the gulf and hurricane season. But the snow in Chestnut Ridge is far beyond what we get ever. It seems like a really heavy mashup of US mid-west and southwest and like they were just going for mostly a general old west movie vibe. Hard to really nail down beyond that.
@iamsweetmystery yes the tropical storms and hurricanes sometimes make it farther north to my area, but usually they miss us. So it isn't too often that we get rain from them. Our summers are usually hot and dry.
Since Texas was once covered by a sea, we have a lot of whiteish limestone, instead of the reddish sandstone that you see in Chestnut Ridge. North Texas is a flat plain/prairie, and isn't very hilly, and certainly not mountainous. Chestnut Ridge is definitely not the plains or prairies! We have a lot of grass (with some mesquite trees, live oaks, cottonwood, and hackberry elm in certain places.)
The pictures I've seen of Utah look the closest to Chestnut Ridge since there are more hills and mountains, and a lot of reddish sandstone. (Utah even has red sandstone arches on its license plates!) Also, they get more snow than most of Texas does. 😉 Even if the developers were thinking of Texas, what they had in mind wasn't Texas but most likely was Utah. 😅
@PugLove888 - Been playing a lot in the new world, Tomarang. Definitely not a Servo friendly place. Not surprising since it's essentially a rainforest. One more to add to the "Servos don't go here" pile.
