On the recent discussion on weather, In-game and IRL I thought we might as well go ahead with it and make a weather thread. That's right. A. Weather. Thread. You can use it as a tableau to spin yarn on old tales of the storm of '434 and give us little weather updates. That way we can avoid the rain! I also think we might need to help those weather people out, they really seem down at the moment. So this is the Oblivion weather station (Were your weather girls!) to the people of Cyrodiil, and there awful, random, and sometimes downright demonic weather.

Lets get the ball rolling. So I shall tell a tale of a weather mod.

My own recommendation is to never use one. They are, forgive the expression, a bit of a wash. So one day im surfing the nexus, then I thought "Ow yes, realistic weather nom nom nom yes I am installing you!" I then went into the game.

It was snowing.

In Anvil.

The next weather mod I tried (Nom nom nom I eat you too!) was....lets say....one with certain "desires" of the watery kind. It rained, and it rained, and it rained. I was in the Heartlands, and it blasted a gale for weeks on end. I did everything, travelled the four corners of Cyrodiil, and always a blasted rainstorm was following me. You know it's coming, with that damn woo-woo-woo and then the imminent clicking sound as a deluge comes down. I just got sick of it. So it went.

The next weather mod promised "Balanced weather, with awe - inspiring graphics (Ok im exaggerating but if you got this far on this drivel I have to keep you entertained) so I had my mod and ate it. It was....just, so.....bland. That's the only way to describe it, bland. The weather was just so nothing'ingy with it changing from sun, grey sky, a three second rainstorm and back on a constant loop. It irritated me so much I got rid of it within the first few minutes of play.

Your turn!

I just use the console to get whatever kind of weather I want. The less mods I have the better

I use only on weather mod. It's one I made myself, years ago, called Morrowind Fog. It attempts to simulate the fog settings in Morrowind (I dislike Oblivion's long view distance). It also applies Natural Weather's RGB values (which I like very much) to vanilla weather. It's a kind of Natural Weather Lite, in a way. So, basically, my weather is pretty much vanilla, it's just tweaked a bit.

I know what you mean about weather mods, though. I have had the same experience with unusual weather when using mods like Natural Weather and All-Natural Weather. But, then, as the other thread made plain, weather can get a little weird in Cyrodiil even without mods.

As far as real-life weather goes, we here in Oregon have been buried under snow since Friday. I'm about ready to fire up Oblivion with the Aquilina mod and head to the deserts.

Can you post screenies of your fog-mod in action, Wyrd? Say, from the Heartlands maybe