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Climate is the general weather pattern within a scenario in Rollerthe Coaster''[[RollerCoaster Tycoon (series)|RollerCoaster Tycoon]]'' series. Climate determainesdetermines how hot or cold, and how wet or dry the scenario's weather will be. Climate can affect a scenario's success, and should not be taken lightly.

The original scenario'sscenarios in ''[[Roller Coaster Tycoon]]'' 1 introducesintroduce 3 climates: Warm, Cool and Wet, and Hot and Dry.

The "Warm" climate is the most common amounstof the 22  original scenarios. The Warm climate features confortablecomfortable tempeturestemperatures, and moderate rainfall. The starting tempeturetemperature for a scenario using the Warm climate is 62F (17C). The Warm climate made it's first appearance in the "Forest Frontiers" scenario, and is used in 13 of the 22 original scenarios.

The "Cool and Wet" climate is the next most common climate. It features more rainfall, and cooler tempeturestemperatures than the Warm climate. The starting tempeturetemperature for a scenario using the Cool and Wet climate is 55F (13C). This climate can sometimes hurt a park's success due to some guests refusing to ride outdoor rides while it is raining. It is sugguestedsuggested while playing in a park that has the Cool and Wet climate, to try to build more indoor rides outdoors, and to build custom rides at least 40% underground(that way they count as an indoor ride so guests will go on them in the rain). The Cool and Wet climate made it's first appearance in the "Katie's World" scenario, and is used in 5 of the 22 original scenarios.

The "Hot and Dry" climate is the least common climate. It features less rainfall, and hotter tempeture'stemperatures than the other two climates. The starting tempeturetemperature for a scenario using the Hot and Dry climate is 62F (17C). It is sugguestedsuggested while playing in a park that has the Hot and Dry climate, try to build more water rides, as guests want to ride water rides even more than usual. The Hot and Dry climate made it's first appearance in the "Dynamite Dunes" scenario. It only appears 3 times in the original game, all of which are the desert themed parks.

The 3 original climates return in the Loopy Landscapes expansion pack for RCT1 along with a new climate called the "Cold" climate. The cold climate is much like the warm climate except that the tempeturestemperatures are signifigantlysignificantly lower. The starting tempeturetemperature for a scenario that uses the cold climate is 48F(9C). The cold climate only appears 3 times in the Loopy Landscapes scenarios, and all 3 scenarios are Snow/Ice themed scenarios.

The same four climates were brought back into RCT 2. When a player is creating a scenario, he/she can pick from one of the four climates for the scenario. The player can also change the climate of a scenario unlike in RCT1. The player must select the scenario they wish to change from the list of scenarios in the main menu screen. Once the scenario is open on screen, the player must go to the save game option, and save the game. Then the player must return to the main menu and click on the toolbox, and select the "Convert Saved Game to Scenario" option. Then the list of saved games will pop up, and the player needs to select the file they saved the game as. Once that is done, the player will be taken into a scenario editor mode where he/she can tweektweak certain options in a scenario, one of them being climate. If a player creates their own scenario, the tempeturetemperature will always start at 62F (17C) regardless of the climate.

*No matter what the climate is, the tempeturetemperature will never go below 32F (0C), and never above 90F (32C). Each climate has its own bounderiesboundaries, however.

**The Mega Park-Megaworld Park prequalprequel-sequel is the only prequel-sequel to not have the same climate in both scenarios.

*The tempeturestemperatures in the "Warm" and "Hot and Dry" climates both start at 62F(17C).