Editing System Brief: Rhianna (section)

== Climate and Seasonal Changes ==
Alcazzar's climate and seasonal changes are very unusual because the planet barely rotates as it orbits its star, Rhianna.  At any one time, 40% of the planet is in summer, another 40% is in winter, and 20% is transitioning between the two seasons.<br>
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The entire summer is daytime, and the whole winter is nighttime.  For approximately 200 standard GST days of the year, each hemisphere is either blessed with eternal daylight and warm, pleasant conditions, or plunged into an equally long night with frigid temperatures and snow reaching depths of several dozen metres.  A 100-day GST period occurs between each extreme when each region passes through a twilight transition.<br>
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The winter are is blanketed by a heavy layer of clouds or blizzards approximately 50% fo the time.  During transtion, the "beltline" region is cloudy 90% of the time, and suffers violent rain or snowstorms 33% of the time.  The summer region is 90% sunney, but when clouds drift in from a transition zone, violent thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes are possible.