My favorite place in the world, where I've spent many lovely months throughout my life, is the Cyclades of Greece, and of them, Santorini is my favorite. As such, @rstarsims3's Santalba is one of my favorite TS3 worlds. I decided to start a save in that world dedicated to viniculture and wine-making (since aside from tourism, that's the main industry on Santorini), so this climate got zoomed to the top of the revamp list, and here we are. I revamped the default setting I originally made, which I'm sharing in this post, but for the save I'm going to play, I made a more detailed version broken out into "months" that I'll also share, but in a separate post once I've tested it out more.
Anyway, climatically speaking, Santorini, like the Cyclades in general, is semi-arid, and the rainfall pattern is Mediterranean. This means that the vast majority of the rain that the island gets falls between October and March, with April through September receiving little to no rain. Because the rainfall pattern awkwardly crosses season lines in a four-season setup, this preset has only two seasons: A dry "summer" season and a wetter "spring" season. This makes this preset good for growing things, because you won't have that aggravating plant dormancy that lasts from mid-autumn until mid-spring in four-season setups. It also means that you won't have falling leaves and bare trees, but if you're being realistic, then Santorini, like many places in or near the Mediterranean Sea, doesn't have much in the way of trees, and those that it has aren't deciduous, so...yeah.
This is a preset for use with the NRaas Tempest mod. General info about this project as well as installation/use instructions are here, and here is a link to the tag page for all the presets I’ve posted so far.
Note: To use this preset, you must disable autumn and winter in the game options. I also recommend doubling the length of spring and summer to compensate for the loss of autumn and winter, but you don't have to do that for the preset to work.
Details of this preset:
Highest temperature: 80F/27C Lowest temperature: 55F/13C
Overall Climate: Very sunny in the dry season, less so in the rainy season. Temperatures are mild, with little-to-no difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures, and are also fairly steady year-round. The rainy season (spring) is just slightly cooler than the dry season (summer). Almost all of the rainfall that happens will occur in the rainy season, and even then it will not be frequent or abundant.
Snow: Nada
Fog: Morning fog is common on Santorini. In fact, fog and dew are vital to the island's ecology because in the dry season there is little rain and no other natural sources of fresh water. The fog usually burns off by about 10AM or so and then returns overnight. It's impossible to be as specific as that in the game, but fog is set to be fairly common in this preset. It can occur at any temperature, but will be of short duration (between one and four hours) unless the game picks the fog pattern multiple times in a row. (Which is possible since the only patterns available in this preset are fog, rain, and sun.) It is weighted to be more common in the dry season than the rainy season, but it's possible in both.
Hail: Nope.
Precipitation Intensity: Rain year-round is set to be mostly light, but there might also be a heavy cloudburst here and there. Rain is more common in the rainy season, obviously. In fact, if you play with short seasons, you might see no rain at all in the dry season because it's fairly heavily outweighed by both fog and sun. That said, storm durations year-round are never long, though it's possible for the game to choose rain multiple times in a row, especially in the rainy season. Heavy bursts are possible in both seasons but are more likely in the dry season, to simulate the occasional thunderstorm that is often the only rain the real island gets in the drier season.
Additional settings:
Fireplaces will not auto-light.
Fallen leaves will not be removed and insect spawners will not spawn in winter...because there is no winter. :)
Download the preset here.
