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Due to the huge territory and climate variety of the Inquisition, seasons vary a lot throughout the nation. Since the Kaiṣamā era, the administrative seasons used in all of the country are the four temperate and astronomical ones, i.e. autumn/winter/spring/summer. These are used in most non-climate-related contexts (thus for example administrative and non-agricultural economic planning), defining them not using climate but using astronomical solstices and equinoxes for the northern hemisphere, where the vast majority of the country and an even greater share of population lies (areas in the southern hemisphere are mostly climatically seasonless anyway). The northern autumn solstice is furthermore coincident with the first day of the year.<br/>The terms for the four seasons normally used are Toyubeshian loanwords. | Due to the huge territory and climate variety of the Inquisition, seasons vary a lot throughout the nation. Since the Kaiṣamā era, the administrative seasons used in all of the country are the four temperate and astronomical ones, i.e. autumn/winter/spring/summer. These are used in most non-climate-related contexts (thus for example administrative and non-agricultural economic planning), defining them not using climate but using astronomical solstices and equinoxes for the northern hemisphere, where the vast majority of the country and an even greater share of population lies (areas in the southern hemisphere are mostly climatically seasonless anyway). The northern autumn solstice is furthermore coincident with the first day of the year.<br/>The terms for the four seasons normally used are Toyubeshian loanwords. | ||
Most of the Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah Plain and of the Jade Coast, i.e. the Chlouvānem heartlands, typically distinguishes two to | Most of the Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah Plain and of the Jade Coast, i.e. the Chlouvānem heartlands, typically distinguishes two to six or seven seasons depending on the location, often with regional terms. The two universal terms are ''dašoe'' - "rainy season", in most of this area the monsoon season - and ''būṃṣoe'', the dry season, i.e. the rest of the year. Start and end dates of the ''dašoe'' vary widely, as do precipitation levels during the dry season: the western end of the Plain has a later and short rainy season, while the coastal areas in the east have a much longer rainy season and still see sometimes significant amounts of rainfall in the rest of the year (especially around Līlta). The northern parts of the Plain, roughly north of the Northern Tropic, typically have more terms. For example, around the Mid-Lāmberah (including Mamaikala, the largest metropolis of the Northern Plain), the autumn equinox, start of the year, is during the ''dašoe'', which is followed by a mild pleasant "autumn" called ''yūrmah'', a moderately cold (temperatures below ~10ºC, reaching zero only in the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa at elevations higher than 1,500m) winter called ''karṣah'', a more pleasant spring called the ''milnas'', and the "hot season" or ''īlāmyoe'', i.e. summer before the arrival of the monsoon. The term ''būṃṣoe'' is in such areas sometimes applied to the driest period of the year, between ''karṣah'' and ''milnas''. | ||
The southern rainforests, consisting mostly of the band south of 10ºN (but with notable areas above it, including the area of Lake Lūlunīkam) in the main continental body, as well as the Southeastern Islands and the Kāyīchah and Kāmilbausa islands, do not have any distinct climatic season, being hot and humid all year long – areas such as those of Kūmanabūruh or Līlasuṃghāṇa in the north of this zone (around 13º and 14ºN) may find useful the astronomic terms due to the changes in sunlight throughout the year; the coastal southern Jade Coast is also affected by the retreating monsoon, which makes the hills of Takajñanta one of the rainiest areas of the planet, and Kūmanabūruh one of the rainiest major cities.<br/>In the West, the deserts of Samvālšaṇṭrē and Ūnikadīltha are also virtually seasonless, being extremely hot, sunny, and dry throughout the year; especially in some areas western and southern Samvālšaṇṭrē, various years may pass without seeing any rainfall at all. | The southern rainforests, consisting mostly of the band south of 10ºN (but with notable areas above it, including the area of Lake Lūlunīkam) in the main continental body, as well as the Southeastern Islands and the Kāyīchah and Kāmilbausa islands, do not have any distinct climatic season, being hot and humid all year long – areas such as those of Kūmanabūruh or Līlasuṃghāṇa in the north of this zone (around 13º and 14ºN) may find useful the astronomic terms due to the changes in sunlight throughout the year; the coastal southern Jade Coast is also affected by the retreating monsoon, which makes the hills of Takajñanta one of the rainiest areas of the planet, and Kūmanabūruh one of the rainiest major cities.<br/>In the West, the deserts of Samvālšaṇṭrē and Ūnikadīltha are also virtually seasonless, being extremely hot, sunny, and dry throughout the year; especially in some areas western and southern Samvālšaṇṭrē, various years may pass without seeing any rainfall at all. | ||