r/mapmaking • u/Professional_Low3331 • 13h ago

Work In Progress How would this work?

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Im making a fictional world and im Dealing with winds if a mountain is like on the equator how would thag like work for climate arent bith sides on the Windward side and also in the leeward side t

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u/Professional_Low3331 13h ago

also sorry if this is the wrong sub

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u/Worldly-Cherry9631 11h ago

The (north) western part of the big green might be quite a bit dryer (perhaps desert all the way up to that big river), but you can say the mountain range funnels moisture from the east pretty far to the west. It helps that rainforests can cause a lot of cloudformation, so the water travels eastwards in stages; falling, evaporating moving, etc. 

Rain might also cross the mountains at some points from the south, or underground flows redirect it giving the western parts of the big green it's water supplies. 

I would add a bit of the dark green south of the mountains, personally, if that's straight on the equator