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Originally Posted by TiggerCCW UK
I've opted for extreme weather as well, but made the weather a lot more random - sudden storms blowing up out of nowhere, two or three days of extreme heat followed by a blizzard, that sort of thing. Probably not overly realistic, but it keeps them on their toes.
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I'm no meteorologist but I think there's something to that. Clouds of particulates would, methinks, congregate over time in massive clouds and get carried along by air currents in the upper atmosphere. Once they're up there, it takes ages to come down since rainclouds don't form that high. Anyway, one day, your patch of earth is shielded from the sun, dropping temps in the area dramatically, and the next week, the same patch is exposed (with reduced ozone allowing greater heating) as the ash-cloud moves on and the temps shoot up. The alternating rapid heating and cooling of the earth's (land OR ocean) surface in any given region would play havoc with the air and water currents creating all kinds of mini (or macro) El Nino or La Nina type weather patterns all over the planet, making heretofore stable (or predictable) climates totally wonky.
I'm rereading
The Road and the author uses the nuclear winter theory to chilling (pun intended) effect.