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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 5:22:31 GMT -5
tij and I had a discussion about the etymology of the names we gave to our fantasy climates. I would be interested in the naming of your dream climate and maybe other fantasy climates you created. I am more interested in the creative ones, but you are free to share a not-so-creative one or share where your username came from (if that's what you used) if you want. For me, my dream climate is Arcleo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:QIDb602/sandboxIt is named based on the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere's summer, Arcturus, and a prominent constellation in the Northern Hemisphere's spring, Leo. Summer-like weather and spring/fall-like weather are both abundant in Arcleo. Winter-like weather does not exist except in occasional cold snaps during the cool season. Pronunciation is like Arc-layo so "leo" is pronounced like leo (lion) in Latin. I also made a former dream climate called Arcsirius. Arcsirius combines Arcturus (for summer) and Sirius (for winter). Arcsirius is a 4-season climate, but right now I prefer "3-season" climates as I lost interest in winter weather. You can see the climate of Arcsirius here: cdweather.boards.net/thread/1810/rate-dream-climate-arcsiriusSo I'm interested. What is the etymology of your dream climate's name and maybe other fantasy climates' names? P.S. Not sure whether I should post this in the general weather forum or the chat forum. If you're a moderator, you can move this as you see fit.
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Post by jgtheone on Feb 24, 2019 5:25:52 GMT -5
Mine's called Northlake because there is a large lake to the north of the city, which can provide lake effect rain/snow in the right conditions. Not very inventive but it works  Blocktown is based on my old love of Lego blocks, nothing else. |
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Post by Moron on Feb 24, 2019 5:26:29 GMT -5
Ushgabal:
Don't know really, at the time (I was 15 or 16) I was into travelling Central/Western Asia. I liked the name Ashgabat (capital of Turkmenistan) and I suppose Ushgabal came from that. Or a mix of names from that region.
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Post by knot on Feb 24, 2019 5:43:31 GMT -5
Crooked Corner, NSW; Southern Tablelands, Australia (Upper Lachlan Shire);
867 m AMSL; 34° 13° 43.36" S:
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Post by tij on Feb 24, 2019 7:37:18 GMT -5
Mine is called Nouveau-Natashquan as:
-indigenous Innu people colonize Europe
-French climates (Limoges, Aurillac, Tarbes, Laval) + Canadian climates (Vancouver) -- chose a French-Canadian name (totally different climate tho!)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 8:18:00 GMT -5
New Surrey is kind of obvious, I think?
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Post by tij on Feb 24, 2019 9:21:13 GMT -5
New Surrey is kind of obvious, I think? Canadian Surrey > British Surrey >>>New Surrey!  |
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Post by Cadeau on Feb 25, 2019 1:12:37 GMT -5
The name of Metropolitan Area isn't an official name, I'm still seriously considering for an appropriate name with a cool phonetic match.
However, the southernmost region in my fantasy island that located nearby the city called Aiba(愛葉); literally can be translated as "Lovely leaf" or "Adorable leaf" in my own made Japanese word. Unintended but looks like it can be also a compound word of Aichi(愛知) and Chiba(千葉).
The second most populated region in the central-west part of the island(facing with colder ocean) is basically Seihoku(西北) which means "Northwest", simply got inspired by Tohoku(東北;Northeast) region in Japan.
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Post by Wildcat on Feb 27, 2019 14:24:06 GMT -5
The first few iterations of my dream climate were called Sabal Bay, because the sabal palmetto was one of my favorite trees at the time, and one that would thrive there. These days my preferred winters are too cold to support them, though I haven't made a fictional climate in a while.
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Feb 27, 2019 22:37:07 GMT -5
Candleville is pretty self-explanatory.
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Post by Crunch41 on Feb 27, 2019 22:58:23 GMT -5
I called it "Crunch41's Dream Climate".
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Post by Donar on Mar 4, 2019 10:15:40 GMT -5
I called my dream climate "Beta" because it was a beta-version and constantly evolving.
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Post by alex992 on Mar 5, 2019 6:54:48 GMT -5
Mine is called "Winter Haven" because of Winter Haven, FL; which settlers originally called "Winter Haven" due to it being a "haven away from winter". Mine is just an ironic spin-off off of that.
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Post by srfoskey on Mar 10, 2019 16:45:04 GMT -5
I named mine Trobin when I was 15 because I thought it sounded cool for some reason.
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Post by MET on Mar 17, 2024 12:46:22 GMT -5
Meteomanford.
Meteo = Weather
Manford = English (West Midlands; of Norman origin): variant of Mountford
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Post by CRISPR on Mar 17, 2024 14:12:18 GMT -5
Mine is Centre Ville de Sept-Sings, translating in French as a Seven Moneys Downtown
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Post by desiccatedi85 on Mar 17, 2024 19:56:08 GMT -5
My dream climate is called Palomares, taking its name from Palomar Mountain, which is a 6,142 foot peak in northern San Diego County. Palomar Mountain at its peak is cooler and much snowier than my dream climate though its mid-elevations are very similar, and Palomares also has very similar vegetation to the area of Palomar Mountain. There's also an unrelated place in Spain called Palomares. It is quite dry and is the site where the US lost four nuclear bombs in an accidental B-52 plane crash in the 1960s.
Palomares, my dream climate, is located in Terasanta, which is a fictional mini-continent and country in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Terasanta is a corruption of the Spanish "tierra santa" meaning holy land, and it is where many Jewish refugees from Spain and Portugal fled to mainly in the early 1500s. It is mostly temperate and subtropical, unsuitable for slave-based plantation economy, so was left alone by outside powers until the Americans and Brazilians colonized it in the 1800s. Some American and Brazilian settlers came, and in the 1930s it received a massive wave of Jewish refugees, thus preventing the deaths of some 80% of Holocaust victims. The 1940s saw massive infrastructure development as it became a key joint American/Brazilian base for the WWII effort in Europe. It lost some population to Israel in the late 1940s and 1950s. The Brazilian portion gained independence in 1945 proclaiming the Republic of Terasanta, and the American portion gained independence in 1991, being annexed into Terasanta.
Here is Terasanta's flag, taking inspiration from Israel, Spain, and Puerto Rico.
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Post by Cheeseman on Mar 17, 2024 22:02:21 GMT -5
desiccatedi85 cool flag, and I like your alternate history better than the real thing. What are the climates of southern Terasanta like? I'd imagine there's gotta be something I'd really enjoy there.
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Post by desiccatedi85 on Mar 17, 2024 22:31:07 GMT -5
desiccatedi85 cool flag, and I like your alternate history better than the real thing. What are the climates of southern Terasanta like? I'd imagine there's gotta be something I'd really enjoy there. Terasanta extends from 42ºN down to 28ºN. It has some tropical climates only in its most extreme southern region, as Terasanta is generally warmer for the latitude due to being ocean-influenced and lacking cold ocean currents. This is the latitude of intense influence from subtropical high pressure though, so tropical Terasanta only gets some seasonal rains, and nowhere is truly wet in its tropical zone like you'd like. |
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Post by sari on Mar 18, 2024 1:42:39 GMT -5
Sky Valley is stolen from the real town of Sky Valley, Georgia, USA, which is not a good climate, but, is at least the best climate in its state. I just liked the sound of it, and it fits the setting of my dream climate, in a very high-altitude valley.
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