Weather of Caranus, also more complicated

Caranus as it has been written about by me before has a real Year of about twenty-four local years.  Local years being the time that it takes the two dancing Suns to orbit the Central Sun.  The real Year, however is the time it takes to pass through a complete cycle of seasons.  The world tilts on its axis and this creates it's season, much like that of Earth.  The planet in the Northern Hemisphere gets summer when the tilt exposes that hemisphere to more light and it is winter when the reverse is true.  Since the apparent seasons only change in the real year it can be quite confusing.  Additionally, the fact that for half of an apparent year the dancing suns are closer to the planet and half they are further away this adds additional complexity to the weather.  It is more complicated than that too.  The dancing suns eclipse each other twice every nine days and in addition the Red Sun feels cooler than the Yellow appearing sun.  So when it is dominant or eclipsing the Yellow, it is cooler too.  The yellow sun is the reverse.  What is poorly understood is that the majority of the heat of day comes from the Blue Sun.  So the coolest day in the year, the real year, is in the Winter when the Dancers Eclipse the Blue Sun and the Red Sun is dominant, typically this occurs once every two real years.  

Why is the Green Sun yellow and the Blue Sun invisible?  Rayleigh scattering!  The high energy wavelengths of light are bent by the atmosphere, that is all the blue light.  The Blue Sun appears invisible because all its light is scattered.  The Green Sun is made of green and yellow light and the green light is scattered.  None of the red light of the Red Sun is scattered.  An additional effect is when the Blue Sun is eclipsed completely, the sky is green when the Yellow Sun is dominant and the sky is black when the Red sun is dominant— the stars are visible and the moons and it is for this reason that being born while the Red Sun is dominant is such bad luck.  It is why the Red Sun is associated with Death and War.  When the Red Sun is dominant, and the Blue Sun out, the plants appear black too as when the Blue Sun is eclipsed.  Many plants have pigments in their leaves, many animals too that reflect blue or red light.  The green light is reflected by the chlorophyl in the plants which is why they are Green. 

Weather is very complicated on Caranus.  Add that it spins the other way so the sun rises in the West and sets in the East.  And the wind and water currents flow the other way too.  

Seasons are longer, which means that the temperatures are more stable, even accounting for the three different suns effects.  Each season take twenty-four times as long to adjust as it does on Earth, so there is no lag time.  Winters in the extreme parts of the world are also more extreme.  The tropical places are more extreme too, hotter than is comfortable when the sun is overhead and less so when it is not.  Equatorial places have two unlivablly warm times and two that are not.  Subtropical places have dangerously hot summers and hot springs and autumns with winters that are temperate.  Temperate climes have warm Summers and temperate springs and autumns cool or cold winters.  Arctic regions have temperate summers and cold autumns and springs and bitter winters.

The weather of some regions is affected by the topography and the circulation patterns of the world.  For example the place where the Migrants landed is the most northerly region of the continent of Caranus.  It has a arctic subarctic climate and it would normally be uninhabitable except for two things, the mountainous terrain and the very large warm ocean current that travels up the coast where they live.  The waters warm the air year round and the warm air dumps more rain there than any place on the planet, well, that is how the inhabitants feel anyways.  Just over the mountains, where the settlers grow most of their wheat, the weather is starkly different.  There is only one growing season and it is limited to summer.  The autumn becomes increasingly cold and the deep lakes there freeze over in the very cold Winters the lakes freeze many tens of meters deep and it takes much of the warmer Spring period to melt that ice.  The summers feature extended periods of day light, between sixteen and twenty-two hours a day that allows the land to give forth upwards of twenty harvests (over about six years of summer).  The winters are so bad though that the people move hundreds of kilometers over the mountains to the cities for the winter.  While warmer, the constant rain is bad for crops in the cities.  Almost all crops are grown in the brief summer.  

The Shinning Lakes are a place with little human habitation.  Directly on the Equator in dense Jungles the waters erupt in the heat of the day as rich and other aquatic beasts breach the surface to cool down, the evaporation off their bodies does the trick. In the Summer and the Winter the temperatures are nearly tolerable and it is impossibly hot in the spring and autumns, over 60°C in the day times.  It is the frothing surface that gives these tropical lakes their name.  

The rain-shadow of mountains is on the opposite side as it is on Earth.  The great temperate deserts tend to be on the western sides and not the Eastern sides.  With more rain on the opposite sides.  Cold water currents dry the land nearby.  Forested regions receive more rainfall than unforested regions. such is life