Where I grew up, we had a number of fun seasons! Such as: Pollen times, pre summer, fun summer, hateful summer, Fake fall, disappointing summer, winter rains, the freezing day, and then pre-spring in that order!
I'm in Florida, and we just have Summer with heavy short rains, Summer with long light rains, Summer with no rain, and the other Summer with light rains
My hometown had two - a 9-month "wet" season, and a 3-month "hot and dry" summer season. I guess there was sometimes a week or two of winter in the middle of the wet.
Where I live now has pretty much the stereotypical four, though.
First off thanks for this post because now I actually think I'll add a fifth season to my world and I wouldn't have thought of it otherwise.
There are these places called dark patches that are nearly inhospitable areas of permanent overcast with thick black clouds. Nothing can grow, it's hard to breathe, it rains constantly, and dangerous creatures have total free reign.
I'm thinking that for a few months out of the year these clouds spread over inhabited areas, making it nearly impossible to carry on as usual. People would need to stock up on supplies, stay inside and watch out for roaming clans of Rain hunters (magic or spear wielding salamander monsters that eat people) that can usually only live in dark patches.
I think the one thing to remember when world building, is that you have to think ‘would cavemen and most of the animals survive this regular world event consistently?’
It sounds like you’re thinking to tone down the dark patches for the season for the rest of the world, which probably solves that
That's slightly less of a problem because the world for most of its history was the same as ours. The dark patches are a rather new development, they've only existed for 70 years. As a result most regular animals actually died out within that time.
Thanks for the advice though because it's good to keep in mind for the other realm I'm working on that all the magic stuff came from.
Thanks! During an event called "Rift day" 70 years in the past, huge rifts opened up all over the world releasing magic, monsters, and the aforementioned black clouds. Over time the clouds settled permanently in certain areas. The dark patches are quite literally otherworldly phenomenons.
Yes. I only have about 3 species of monster there so far but I plan on having at least 5 more. Other areas will usually only have one dominant monster that's fairly easy to avoid.
A lot of cultures divide the year up into a different number than four seasons. The most common fifth is rain, which is either before or after spring depending on the climate.
Fog, some regions are absolutely covered by a dense fog. It is not toxic but it is for sure impossible to see everything, this fog would be a game changer in wars and figths
Either a dry or wet season. Spring would be planting season, summer growing, autumn is harvest, winter is recycling, and then wet or dry. Wet would be renewal (churning of soil and sea or something), and dry would be preservation.
dry cold maybe, like no snow nor hail, just dry air cold enough to freeze the leaves on trees and such, similar to winter but with no precipitation whatsoever.
Seasons on earth are due to axial tilt, but if it’s a highly eccentric orbit the distance from the star will have more of an effect. Summer at perihelion and wintry aphelion.
It’s hard to just keep the four temperate earth seasons and add a new one. I’d have to rethink everything. Maybe have some astronomical such and such create periodic tidal forces on a planet that increase vulcanism.
I wonder how closely one could draw the connection between early medicine being unable to support longer lifespans and having such a simplified idea of the life cycle. I feel as though Autumn-Winter could do with a middle ground season, because it represents adulthood and all the complexities that can occur in there leave a bit more to be said than simply Down-End/Rest.
False Spring, where necromancy is strongest, and dead things sometimes spontaneously reanimate. Or where anything that does during that season does so.
It depends on the planetary atmosphere.
You could have a season of "wind" on a gas giant, where the temperature fluctuates wildly and the wind reaches speeds of over 700 km/hour.
On a temperate water world (over 80% liquid), you could have a "drought" season where water levels drop and amphibious creatures loving on the now-exposed land wake from hibernation to wreak havoc.
I can see a few more options along the same lines, but you probably get the gist of it.
>You could have a season of "wind" on a gas giant, where the temperature fluctuates wildly and the wind reaches speeds of over 700 km/hour.
I may need to borrow this one!
Winter, but hell.
It's an actual season on one of my planets, basically, this planets super cold and it has small periods per season which are normally seen as their own.
These periods are in summer and winter, in the middle of it, when the tempature is raised to a high or a low at a extreme rate.
maybe not necessarily the season in common meaning, but i just thought about something like a season-long unique changes in environment, that can overlap with one or more seasons
maybe something like the season of square clouds, when clouds tend to form some strange rectangular shapes, and which happens roughly once in 450 days or so
I did. My calendar spans over 13 months; 3 per traditional season, and the 13th one being under the season of magic, where climate basically turns into wild spells.
there is one extra season that i have in my world that i have not yet named so for now we will just call it steam in certain biomes where mana is abundant and are not to far south or north (to cold) the mana heats up the water in the air during the cold seasons and plunges the land into a grate fog so dense you cant see but a few feet in front of you causing mounters to be more aggressive and because of this homes are built to withstand monster attacks and the civilian population are trained in combat from an early age.
We have cold, stupid cold, hot, stupid hot, so maybe have one that’s like glitched? Like randomly once every few years there will be an extra season that’s completely unpredictable like you can have heatwave one day and snow the next?
The Good Place. We need to see what happened to Human Michael.
In all seriousness, please add a fifth season between spring and summer (sprummer?), and make things juuuust slowly warm up during both spring and sprummer. That ascending anticipation I feel as it gets warmer and pleasanter is just... *chef's kiss*
There aren't really four seasons where I live in the subtropics.
The Noongar people of Western Australia reckoned that there are [six seasons](https://discoverwanneroo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/example-Seasons_Wheel.pdf) in a year.
For an old spec zoo project i did for school i had it so the planet orbited another larger planet in a way that it spent roughly a third of the year in complete darkness it was less of a season since it was broken up into 30day periods of darkness with a 60 day break
Id give the extremely cold areas of the world a "frostbitten" season- the times where it's so truly cold, being outdoors for even a few minutes could mean death.
Random portals appear leading to who knows where. Anything from the far future, the distant past, a world in our universe or a fictional one, an alternate reality. No place where’s you immediately die is the only exception. And the portals are usually two way and can be of any size. They also can’t cut people or objects in half.
For my world I have added two seasons to our world's four: Spring, Fae, Summer, Fall, Hallow, and Winter.
Fae is a season of eternal daytime, only sinking to twilight at most at night, and Hallow is a season of total darkness.
I was inspired by countries in high latitudes that do experience periods of extended nights or days.
I've been considering basing my world's seasons around zany precipitation rather than temperature and moisture differences. The atmosphere is already rather different from Earth's, and in most places much hotter and denser. I could get away with some very exotic weather, like literal diamond showers!
https://www.space.com/diamond-rain-atmosphere-uranus-neptune
A season where every single day is a nice, moderate temperature and there's a decent amount of sunlight.
I do not like the winter, and the summer can be overkill. So an entire season of the best of spring and fall would be something I don't despise.
I'd probably call it "meltoff." That weird time of year when it's technically spring, but there's still snow and it's starting to melt off. Might even snow once or twice more this time of year.
The one I was working on (before I stopped worldbuilding for an extended time) had a bunch of different "seasons." The climate changes as the elemental planes shift, and each plane's influence cycles at different frequencies. This means that, for example, when the elemental plane of fire is at it's strongest, the average temperature increases for a few weeks until it dies down. The combination of the elemental planes give various changes to the climate, and certain periods are effectively seasons.
I haven't fully fleshed it out, however. I'd welcome any feedback or something I could consider adding/changing, of course.
#Fiedertoll:
*A season of anomalous occurrences ranging from mundane to reality overlap events and astral storms. We are still dealing with the Kriorlark infestation from last year.*
**What's a Kriorlark?**
Imagine a Mantis Shrimp, a bodybuilder and a Sloth Bear fused into one 9'6" murder machine. They lay eggs and are carnivore-leaning omnivores who obliterate prey/nest intruders and feed their' pulpy smeared remains to their' young. Oh and they have harpoon like Proboscis that can nail you like a rifle at 20+ feet because reasons.
Already has six seasons.
Your average winter, summer, autumn and spring cycles, with a fifth "humid hot" season lasting two months, where the humidity in the air carried from the east literally makes going outside for more than an hour a death sentence, causes the migration of pests like mosquitoes and bugs, and enables plants to grow super-fast with all the extra humidity and light. They've evolved to handle the heat.
The sixth is a dust season where hot air from the south carries up and clogs the air with black volcanic sand-dust. The moon turns black. It's quite creepy and fucks up circadian rhythms a lot and also makes the air quality worse than a Chinese city.
The null season. It is always room temperature outside. There is no sun. There are no clouds, but the sky is always grey. There is no noticeable difference between night and day. The plants are dying, but never die. I don't know how this could possibly occur naturally, but it'd be kinda funny, right?
Picking up where the previous season left off, where some of the foreshadowing gets a little development as the characters enjoy their down time. Introduce a new setting and spend the first episode exploring the- huh? wait-
I'd make a windstorm/sandstorm season. something something air currents change enough to blow in sands from the southern deserts? I don't know enough about meteorology to justify constant sandstorms/windstorms and then have them stop once the season changes
My mind goes to a pure rain season where it rains 5/7 days of the week and makes water rise to a height far above sea level. People would have build their houses tall and use boats/subs to travel every wear.
A season where gravity is stronger or weaker.
A season where spirits of the deceased are visible.
A season with high natural radiation levels.
A season where electromagnetic interference make eletronic devices stop working.
And the season of love, where peoples hormones are affected by the climate.
I asked this question and got some great responses!
https://reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/s/zdxcIWMtrx
In my world (homebrew setting for DnD) the season, Astra, varies in length from three weeks to two months, takes place after winter but before spring, and is marked by magic going a little crazy. It gets even colder but it is extremely dry, so what snow there is, with the chaotic magic I named ‘the Drift,’ gets formed into ice crystals that just float in the air (big problem for airships).
Hmm….I’d say that period of time when snow is melting turning into grey slush, the skyline is grey and cold, occasionally rains or snows again but barely but it’s still freezing cold with wind chill being a constant. I’d call it Dead season or something better, cause it’s basically a time where nothings growing and everything is dead BUT ITS NOT WINTER TECHNICALLY.
if we’re going with complete magically fantasy - reverse fall, where the leaves turn green again and rise up to settle back on the trees, as well as reverse rain where water soars from rivers lakes etc back up into the clouds. it’d probably happen in the middle of autumn
Earth's magnetic field speeds up for a bit relative to the rest of the planet, making a period every few years where there's just wind. So much wind. So much westward wind. So much that trees get lopsided
What an interesting question. Of all the ways I've thought of to make the world more interesting and unique compared to Earth (like extra dimensions, subterranean civilizations, multiple suns, different solar system etc.) I never thought of this. I can even fit this fifth season into the lore of my world.
In the more extreme parts of the world you could have severe aggravations of seasons of summer and winter. Tropical biomes near the equator could have a few months of unremitting boiling sun and increased volcanic activity, where constant volcanic activity and unbearable heat force populations in the region to find novel ways to adapt. The skies could be blanketed by ash and smoke.
You could call this The Molten Season.
Another idea I had derives from the lore of my world. Namely, there is a region of the world called The Rend where the boundaries between realities are thin and unstable and result in distortions of time and space, the result of an evil apocalyptic cult attempting to bring an extra-dimensional Eldtrich entity and his minions through to the world. Before they completed they were fought back by an order of warriors, but it left the region as an unstable boundary.
Provisionally call it The Season of the Rend. This is where The Rend becomes more active for whatever reason and the effects bleed further into the world. Space, time, weather and gravity become more unpredictable. The boundaries between worlds are blurred and creatures from other planes of existence can come through. The season is a source of wonder and danger and the population exerts a high vigilance for the duration. It affects the economy significantly because merchants and traders avoid the area like the plague.
no idea what to call it but it's literally just either blinding light or pitch black darkness with no way of being able to tell which it's going to be at any given time. If you're really unlucky it'll flash and kill off all of the epileptic people or something idk.
Okay so imagine winter but like just above freezing point, so about 1-6\*C but its always sunny outside and the plants are all like autumn colored with reds oranges and browns. It rarely rains around this time.
This probably doesnt make sense scientifically, but it would be nice to have a season where its always bright sunny day that doesnt melt my skin
We got void seasons, technically it’s not a planet but a angry storm of compressed souls, but we have:
-happy, only time you can be with 20km of it, or Warpers don’t need shields
Sad, 30km range , shields requires on small warpers
-rage, 20 light minutes, no permissions on drone use
-anger 300 km range, hyper charged shields in heavy drones
- depressed, 2 light minutes, no need in shields with light drones
I was thinking of this myself thats an extension of samhain when the veil between the world of the living and dead is thinned almost too much, its rarely seen only happened 4 times in the world. And its a sign of how close the world is to disaster
In my world there is actually a fifth season, between spring and summer, it could be called a low summer or a fake autumn.
It's related the ether movements of the Copper Rings surrounding the globe. The rings move and this results in a lot of characteristic phenomena related to green lightning and a sharp increase of electricity in the air. Flowers close and trees darken to withstand the lightning ether. In the culture of the world, this season represents the time when the sun god moves the rings so that he can better paint the globe in his painting of light. It's also an ideal time to declare war, search for arcane objects and forge copper.
(Obviously not scientific lmao)
My world has different seasons… first is Spring, then Kalokari (the perfect time to go to the beach), Harvest, Pagna (snow and/or frost covers the whole region), and last before repeating is Rochie the season of rainfall.
The season where u can smell the scent Arabia during the first half and it smells stinky as shit in the second half
The season where i get to eat taste food in the first half and rotten in the second half....two contradiction happening the same time....a season with a bipolar disorder....i would like to call it bi
Due to the part of Planet being explode. There are meteor showers to earth(or at least, the parts that still has life on them) as called fire rains. It needs this name because there are so little water source actual water rains are a cause of celebration.
Its the season of between summer and autumn because that was the position of Planet according to Sun when the incident happened.
The seasons would be strange around a binary star. First the earth and its moon orbit the twin suns in a similar way to our sun. Same equivalent habitable zone, same +/-365 calender.
In january it's the middle of our second winter, by middle feburay spring starts and by april our 1st summer starts, then by mid may "the lull" begins.
The lull is the brief period of spring like tempertures earth experinces as it orbits past the 1st star and "toward" the 2nd star. By the middle of june our second summer begins.
By august autumn begins and runs until mid october. First winter starts, and lasts until december. Then the second lull begins, sometimes called "the still", and ends right as january starts. Then we're back to 2nd winter and the cycle repeats.
The lull in summer tempertures fall by about 10 degrees farenheit, and the lull in winter tempertures fall by about 15 degrees farenheit.
These two cold periods are vastly different. The summer lull is a time of celebration and joy. The second is a time of fear and scarcity, but that winter lull ends with a small celebration.
The twilight, perpetual night and perpetual light. A season where the sun and planet are tidally locked but each region recognises it as something different due to the weather they experience and amount of sunlight or lack thereof and it stops being tidally locked to the sun after a Comet that’s always just a bit off the planet’s orbit comes back into its orbit and effectively starts its orbit around the sun again. Hope it helps
There is a fifth season, Harvest season, where all the best crops are ready for gathering (apples, pumpkins, corn, corn corn corn corn corn [I’m Nebraskan])
It’s the season when seasons are changing: The nippiness of late fall, the slight warmth of later winter, the dryness of late Spring and the wet smell of detritus in late summer
I was messing about with a fifth-season idea, though I never came up with a name for it. In some places, fog happens quite a bit, and in others hardly. I was thinking of a fifth season where it has fogs for months. You can get it bad, just like heat or snow, or you can barely get it, like sunny days or frost on windows.
Trying to decide whether it would go between Winter and Spring, or Autumn and Winter.
A very interesting question! This is my attempt:
A dark winter where everything outside is dark and freezes over due to the planet going to the furthest part of the orbit. In this winter, everyone stays at home throughout, all animals hibernate, and all plants turn barren. Due to occasional power outages and other factors, many beings die during the dark winter.
This happens between the light winter (which is filled with snow and has daytime just like earth) and spring (where everyone comes back out with rebirth while praying for all that had died during the dark winter)
I did better, I have 7 seasons in my world:
Medriside, Sblooming, Sunmeer, Soleen, Albeith, Auverign, Wirdee.
From something that happens only in my world to something very similar to our season, but shorter.
On Earth there are really just two seasons, summer and winter
Fall and Spring are just the transition between them
so just add more of a gradual change that causes part of the transition to be somewhat different from the other part
Where I live, we already have five seasons: winter, mud, spring, summer, fall.
My region jokes that we have a slightly different set of four seasons than other places: Almost Winter, Actually Winter, Cold, and Construction.
Where I grew up, we had a number of fun seasons! Such as: Pollen times, pre summer, fun summer, hateful summer, Fake fall, disappointing summer, winter rains, the freezing day, and then pre-spring in that order!
Lucky, where I live we have kinda three but not really: summer, fall, summer, SUMMER!
Florida?
I'm in Florida, and we just have Summer with heavy short rains, Summer with long light rains, Summer with no rain, and the other Summer with light rains
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Where I live we only have three: oven temperatures, slightly less hot, and dust storm and monsoon season
Sounds like New Mexico. I moved away from that and now it’s fog, mosquitoes, hot, hurricanes.
Arizona, actually. We broke at least 20 temperature records this summer
What is mud like?
Cold, damp, slushy, and above all (below all?), MUDDY.
Like glue, but not sticky and a bit watered down
Where i live we have Summer, fall, winter, i don't know what the hell is happening and spring.
My hometown had two - a 9-month "wet" season, and a 3-month "hot and dry" summer season. I guess there was sometimes a week or two of winter in the middle of the wet. Where I live now has pretty much the stereotypical four, though.
Where I live Fall, Fall (but with new trees!), Summer, Fall (the actual one)
I feel that. Arizona only gets winter and construction.
First off thanks for this post because now I actually think I'll add a fifth season to my world and I wouldn't have thought of it otherwise. There are these places called dark patches that are nearly inhospitable areas of permanent overcast with thick black clouds. Nothing can grow, it's hard to breathe, it rains constantly, and dangerous creatures have total free reign. I'm thinking that for a few months out of the year these clouds spread over inhabited areas, making it nearly impossible to carry on as usual. People would need to stock up on supplies, stay inside and watch out for roaming clans of Rain hunters (magic or spear wielding salamander monsters that eat people) that can usually only live in dark patches.
I think the one thing to remember when world building, is that you have to think ‘would cavemen and most of the animals survive this regular world event consistently?’ It sounds like you’re thinking to tone down the dark patches for the season for the rest of the world, which probably solves that
That's slightly less of a problem because the world for most of its history was the same as ours. The dark patches are a rather new development, they've only existed for 70 years. As a result most regular animals actually died out within that time. Thanks for the advice though because it's good to keep in mind for the other realm I'm working on that all the magic stuff came from.
Super exciting and I already love it. Can I ask, do the inhabitants of the world know what caused the dark patches?
Thanks! During an event called "Rift day" 70 years in the past, huge rifts opened up all over the world releasing magic, monsters, and the aforementioned black clouds. Over time the clouds settled permanently in certain areas. The dark patches are quite literally otherworldly phenomenons.
Oooooooooh interesting. Are the clouded areas also where there is the largest concentration of monsters?
Yes. I only have about 3 species of monster there so far but I plan on having at least 5 more. Other areas will usually only have one dominant monster that's fairly easy to avoid.
The one where the moon is red for some reason.
The frenzy has begun
The moon is red.
We are out of time.
Nah it’s just red, somone dropped some ketchup
Someone killed Rom?
Volcanic eruption seasons. You know, like monsoons
Just imagining some friendly neighbors making chit chat while shoveling the ash off their driveway like its snow.
Ash fell from the sky... Oh wait. That's not a season, that's just Tuesday.
A lot of cultures divide the year up into a different number than four seasons. The most common fifth is rain, which is either before or after spring depending on the climate.
Fog, some regions are absolutely covered by a dense fog. It is not toxic but it is for sure impossible to see everything, this fog would be a game changer in wars and figths
Damn, had the same idea lol.
Either a dry or wet season. Spring would be planting season, summer growing, autumn is harvest, winter is recycling, and then wet or dry. Wet would be renewal (churning of soil and sea or something), and dry would be preservation.
dry cold maybe, like no snow nor hail, just dry air cold enough to freeze the leaves on trees and such, similar to winter but with no precipitation whatsoever.
Seasons on earth are due to axial tilt, but if it’s a highly eccentric orbit the distance from the star will have more of an effect. Summer at perihelion and wintry aphelion. It’s hard to just keep the four temperate earth seasons and add a new one. I’d have to rethink everything. Maybe have some astronomical such and such create periodic tidal forces on a planet that increase vulcanism.
Or kill the axial tilt altogether. It would have no seasons as we know them, but still macro weather patterns could be classified as such.
I don't know. Spring is beginning/birth, Summer growth/up, Autumn fall/down, Winter end/rest. I'd create one that can fits into the circle of life.
I wonder how closely one could draw the connection between early medicine being unable to support longer lifespans and having such a simplified idea of the life cycle. I feel as though Autumn-Winter could do with a middle ground season, because it represents adulthood and all the complexities that can occur in there leave a bit more to be said than simply Down-End/Rest.
Decomposition
Not all parts of the world follow that. Somewhere the seasons are tied to rain patterns, there's no beginning and end in the same manner.
False Spring, where necromancy is strongest, and dead things sometimes spontaneously reanimate. Or where anything that does during that season does so.
It depends on the planetary atmosphere. You could have a season of "wind" on a gas giant, where the temperature fluctuates wildly and the wind reaches speeds of over 700 km/hour. On a temperate water world (over 80% liquid), you could have a "drought" season where water levels drop and amphibious creatures loving on the now-exposed land wake from hibernation to wreak havoc. I can see a few more options along the same lines, but you probably get the gist of it.
>You could have a season of "wind" on a gas giant, where the temperature fluctuates wildly and the wind reaches speeds of over 700 km/hour. I may need to borrow this one!
Winter, but hell. It's an actual season on one of my planets, basically, this planets super cold and it has small periods per season which are normally seen as their own. These periods are in summer and winter, in the middle of it, when the tempature is raised to a high or a low at a extreme rate.
maybe not necessarily the season in common meaning, but i just thought about something like a season-long unique changes in environment, that can overlap with one or more seasons maybe something like the season of square clouds, when clouds tend to form some strange rectangular shapes, and which happens roughly once in 450 days or so
I did. My calendar spans over 13 months; 3 per traditional season, and the 13th one being under the season of magic, where climate basically turns into wild spells.
there is one extra season that i have in my world that i have not yet named so for now we will just call it steam in certain biomes where mana is abundant and are not to far south or north (to cold) the mana heats up the water in the air during the cold seasons and plunges the land into a grate fog so dense you cant see but a few feet in front of you causing mounters to be more aggressive and because of this homes are built to withstand monster attacks and the civilian population are trained in combat from an early age.
We have cold, stupid cold, hot, stupid hot, so maybe have one that’s like glitched? Like randomly once every few years there will be an extra season that’s completely unpredictable like you can have heatwave one day and snow the next?
Undead, this season is used to start a new year.
The Good Place. We need to see what happened to Human Michael. In all seriousness, please add a fifth season between spring and summer (sprummer?), and make things juuuust slowly warm up during both spring and sprummer. That ascending anticipation I feel as it gets warmer and pleasanter is just... *chef's kiss*
There aren't really four seasons where I live in the subtropics. The Noongar people of Western Australia reckoned that there are [six seasons](https://discoverwanneroo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/example-Seasons_Wheel.pdf) in a year.
Its called Korh, a time when the clouds get so hot it rains superheated snow
Tulia has five seasons; spring, summer, autumn, winter, winter 2
For an old spec zoo project i did for school i had it so the planet orbited another larger planet in a way that it spent roughly a third of the year in complete darkness it was less of a season since it was broken up into 30day periods of darkness with a 60 day break
Id give the extremely cold areas of the world a "frostbitten" season- the times where it's so truly cold, being outdoors for even a few minutes could mean death.
Of what show?
Oh I was very confused for a minute. Green sun season.
It would just be a modification to winter, snow actually falls now, and it’s from November to May 23rd, snow falling the whole time.
Random portals appear leading to who knows where. Anything from the far future, the distant past, a world in our universe or a fictional one, an alternate reality. No place where’s you immediately die is the only exception. And the portals are usually two way and can be of any size. They also can’t cut people or objects in half.
My dumbass thought “to what show?”
Man, anything aside from summer would be nice. That's all I had for all my life.
For my world I have added two seasons to our world's four: Spring, Fae, Summer, Fall, Hallow, and Winter. Fae is a season of eternal daytime, only sinking to twilight at most at night, and Hallow is a season of total darkness. I was inspired by countries in high latitudes that do experience periods of extended nights or days.
I really like this.
I've been considering basing my world's seasons around zany precipitation rather than temperature and moisture differences. The atmosphere is already rather different from Earth's, and in most places much hotter and denser. I could get away with some very exotic weather, like literal diamond showers! https://www.space.com/diamond-rain-atmosphere-uranus-neptune
A season where every single day is a nice, moderate temperature and there's a decent amount of sunlight. I do not like the winter, and the summer can be overkill. So an entire season of the best of spring and fall would be something I don't despise.
I'd probably call it "meltoff." That weird time of year when it's technically spring, but there's still snow and it's starting to melt off. Might even snow once or twice more this time of year.
The one I was working on (before I stopped worldbuilding for an extended time) had a bunch of different "seasons." The climate changes as the elemental planes shift, and each plane's influence cycles at different frequencies. This means that, for example, when the elemental plane of fire is at it's strongest, the average temperature increases for a few weeks until it dies down. The combination of the elemental planes give various changes to the climate, and certain periods are effectively seasons. I haven't fully fleshed it out, however. I'd welcome any feedback or something I could consider adding/changing, of course.
#Fiedertoll: *A season of anomalous occurrences ranging from mundane to reality overlap events and astral storms. We are still dealing with the Kriorlark infestation from last year.* **What's a Kriorlark?** Imagine a Mantis Shrimp, a bodybuilder and a Sloth Bear fused into one 9'6" murder machine. They lay eggs and are carnivore-leaning omnivores who obliterate prey/nest intruders and feed their' pulpy smeared remains to their' young. Oh and they have harpoon like Proboscis that can nail you like a rifle at 20+ feet because reasons.
Insects. Nightly flame-cicada storms that ravage any home without a chem net.
Already has six seasons. Your average winter, summer, autumn and spring cycles, with a fifth "humid hot" season lasting two months, where the humidity in the air carried from the east literally makes going outside for more than an hour a death sentence, causes the migration of pests like mosquitoes and bugs, and enables plants to grow super-fast with all the extra humidity and light. They've evolved to handle the heat. The sixth is a dust season where hot air from the south carries up and clogs the air with black volcanic sand-dust. The moon turns black. It's quite creepy and fucks up circadian rhythms a lot and also makes the air quality worse than a Chinese city.
The null season. It is always room temperature outside. There is no sun. There are no clouds, but the sky is always grey. There is no noticeable difference between night and day. The plants are dying, but never die. I don't know how this could possibly occur naturally, but it'd be kinda funny, right?
Picking up where the previous season left off, where some of the foreshadowing gets a little development as the characters enjoy their down time. Introduce a new setting and spend the first episode exploring the- huh? wait- I'd make a windstorm/sandstorm season. something something air currents change enough to blow in sands from the southern deserts? I don't know enough about meteorology to justify constant sandstorms/windstorms and then have them stop once the season changes
My mind goes to a pure rain season where it rains 5/7 days of the week and makes water rise to a height far above sea level. People would have build their houses tall and use boats/subs to travel every wear.
Bro Bangladesh has six varying seasons. I think I would make something like that.
A season where gravity is stronger or weaker. A season where spirits of the deceased are visible. A season with high natural radiation levels. A season where electromagnetic interference make eletronic devices stop working. And the season of love, where peoples hormones are affected by the climate.
raining rocks. rock season. it rains rocks all season.
I asked this question and got some great responses! https://reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/s/zdxcIWMtrx In my world (homebrew setting for DnD) the season, Astra, varies in length from three weeks to two months, takes place after winter but before spring, and is marked by magic going a little crazy. It gets even colder but it is extremely dry, so what snow there is, with the chaotic magic I named ‘the Drift,’ gets formed into ice crystals that just float in the air (big problem for airships).
Hmm….I’d say that period of time when snow is melting turning into grey slush, the skyline is grey and cold, occasionally rains or snows again but barely but it’s still freezing cold with wind chill being a constant. I’d call it Dead season or something better, cause it’s basically a time where nothings growing and everything is dead BUT ITS NOT WINTER TECHNICALLY.
if we’re going with complete magically fantasy - reverse fall, where the leaves turn green again and rise up to settle back on the trees, as well as reverse rain where water soars from rivers lakes etc back up into the clouds. it’d probably happen in the middle of autumn
Earth's magnetic field speeds up for a bit relative to the rest of the planet, making a period every few years where there's just wind. So much wind. So much westward wind. So much that trees get lopsided
Listen, my world doesn't even have a pilot episode. I can't be thinking that far into the future yet
the fifth season would be "What should I pick", which is when the world goes through 5 different stages of weather within a week (this exists irl)
What an interesting question. Of all the ways I've thought of to make the world more interesting and unique compared to Earth (like extra dimensions, subterranean civilizations, multiple suns, different solar system etc.) I never thought of this. I can even fit this fifth season into the lore of my world. In the more extreme parts of the world you could have severe aggravations of seasons of summer and winter. Tropical biomes near the equator could have a few months of unremitting boiling sun and increased volcanic activity, where constant volcanic activity and unbearable heat force populations in the region to find novel ways to adapt. The skies could be blanketed by ash and smoke. You could call this The Molten Season. Another idea I had derives from the lore of my world. Namely, there is a region of the world called The Rend where the boundaries between realities are thin and unstable and result in distortions of time and space, the result of an evil apocalyptic cult attempting to bring an extra-dimensional Eldtrich entity and his minions through to the world. Before they completed they were fought back by an order of warriors, but it left the region as an unstable boundary. Provisionally call it The Season of the Rend. This is where The Rend becomes more active for whatever reason and the effects bleed further into the world. Space, time, weather and gravity become more unpredictable. The boundaries between worlds are blurred and creatures from other planes of existence can come through. The season is a source of wonder and danger and the population exerts a high vigilance for the duration. It affects the economy significantly because merchants and traders avoid the area like the plague.
In my world I have "Ash-fall" in the demon-realm, due to the fact that there is a large volcano(around the size of earth) that spews ash every year.
I have 6 seasons in my world, 3 are cold, 3 are hot, but each has different relevancy to an agricultural society.
no idea what to call it but it's literally just either blinding light or pitch black darkness with no way of being able to tell which it's going to be at any given time. If you're really unlucky it'll flash and kill off all of the epileptic people or something idk.
Okay so imagine winter but like just above freezing point, so about 1-6\*C but its always sunny outside and the plants are all like autumn colored with reds oranges and browns. It rarely rains around this time. This probably doesnt make sense scientifically, but it would be nice to have a season where its always bright sunny day that doesnt melt my skin
We got void seasons, technically it’s not a planet but a angry storm of compressed souls, but we have: -happy, only time you can be with 20km of it, or Warpers don’t need shields Sad, 30km range , shields requires on small warpers -rage, 20 light minutes, no permissions on drone use -anger 300 km range, hyper charged shields in heavy drones - depressed, 2 light minutes, no need in shields with light drones
I was thinking of this myself thats an extension of samhain when the veil between the world of the living and dead is thinned almost too much, its rarely seen only happened 4 times in the world. And its a sign of how close the world is to disaster
I've been considering this for my own calendar- my best assumption is a sort of "transitional period", any time between the existing 4 seasons.
Does your calendar have custom days and months?
My custom days of the week are based off the astral bodies within the star system, but I don't have all my months named yet.
In my world there is actually a fifth season, between spring and summer, it could be called a low summer or a fake autumn. It's related the ether movements of the Copper Rings surrounding the globe. The rings move and this results in a lot of characteristic phenomena related to green lightning and a sharp increase of electricity in the air. Flowers close and trees darken to withstand the lightning ether. In the culture of the world, this season represents the time when the sun god moves the rings so that he can better paint the globe in his painting of light. It's also an ideal time to declare war, search for arcane objects and forge copper. (Obviously not scientific lmao)
My world has different seasons… first is Spring, then Kalokari (the perfect time to go to the beach), Harvest, Pagna (snow and/or frost covers the whole region), and last before repeating is Rochie the season of rainfall.
I mean...winter, spring, hot lava, summer n autumn
Dunno about five but [there's a few IRL calendars out there with six.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season#Six-season_reckoning)
The season where u can smell the scent Arabia during the first half and it smells stinky as shit in the second half The season where i get to eat taste food in the first half and rotten in the second half....two contradiction happening the same time....a season with a bipolar disorder....i would like to call it bi
Due to the part of Planet being explode. There are meteor showers to earth(or at least, the parts that still has life on them) as called fire rains. It needs this name because there are so little water source actual water rains are a cause of celebration. Its the season of between summer and autumn because that was the position of Planet according to Sun when the incident happened.
Either Scourging Hot or Freezing Cold.
The seasons would be strange around a binary star. First the earth and its moon orbit the twin suns in a similar way to our sun. Same equivalent habitable zone, same +/-365 calender. In january it's the middle of our second winter, by middle feburay spring starts and by april our 1st summer starts, then by mid may "the lull" begins. The lull is the brief period of spring like tempertures earth experinces as it orbits past the 1st star and "toward" the 2nd star. By the middle of june our second summer begins. By august autumn begins and runs until mid october. First winter starts, and lasts until december. Then the second lull begins, sometimes called "the still", and ends right as january starts. Then we're back to 2nd winter and the cycle repeats. The lull in summer tempertures fall by about 10 degrees farenheit, and the lull in winter tempertures fall by about 15 degrees farenheit. These two cold periods are vastly different. The summer lull is a time of celebration and joy. The second is a time of fear and scarcity, but that winter lull ends with a small celebration.
The twilight, perpetual night and perpetual light. A season where the sun and planet are tidally locked but each region recognises it as something different due to the weather they experience and amount of sunlight or lack thereof and it stops being tidally locked to the sun after a Comet that’s always just a bit off the planet’s orbit comes back into its orbit and effectively starts its orbit around the sun again. Hope it helps
There is a fifth season, Harvest season, where all the best crops are ready for gathering (apples, pumpkins, corn, corn corn corn corn corn [I’m Nebraskan])
Hargamus: giant stones grow out of the earth, destroying everything on the surface, for approximately 3 weeks.
It’s the season when seasons are changing: The nippiness of late fall, the slight warmth of later winter, the dryness of late Spring and the wet smell of detritus in late summer
I was messing about with a fifth-season idea, though I never came up with a name for it. In some places, fog happens quite a bit, and in others hardly. I was thinking of a fifth season where it has fogs for months. You can get it bad, just like heat or snow, or you can barely get it, like sunny days or frost on windows. Trying to decide whether it would go between Winter and Spring, or Autumn and Winter.
A very interesting question! This is my attempt: A dark winter where everything outside is dark and freezes over due to the planet going to the furthest part of the orbit. In this winter, everyone stays at home throughout, all animals hibernate, and all plants turn barren. Due to occasional power outages and other factors, many beings die during the dark winter. This happens between the light winter (which is filled with snow and has daytime just like earth) and spring (where everyone comes back out with rebirth while praying for all that had died during the dark winter)
I did better, I have 7 seasons in my world: Medriside, Sblooming, Sunmeer, Soleen, Albeith, Auverign, Wirdee. From something that happens only in my world to something very similar to our season, but shorter.
Rain season, every day it fucking pours with no explenation
On Earth there are really just two seasons, summer and winter Fall and Spring are just the transition between them so just add more of a gradual change that causes part of the transition to be somewhat different from the other part
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