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With the exception of [[Shinovar]] and the occasional well-sheltered [[lait]], all of Roshar is frequently ravaged by powerful [[highstorm]]s, massive hurricanes travelling from east to west. These storms come frequently and, though they do not appear to follow a simple pattern, [[stormwarden]]s are able to accurately predict their schedule through complex mathematics.{{book ref|WoR|31}} As a result, Shinovar is the only place on Roshar that has soil.{{book ref|WoK|i|4}} A highstorm consists of a high altitude, wide-spread [[wikipedia:Cumulonimbus cloud|cumulonimbus]], scraping the top of Roshar's troposphere; they can be [[wikipedia:derecho|derecho]]-like storms bringing heavy rain and strong winds.
 
The one consistent aspect of the Rosharan climate is the [[Weeping]]. The Weeping occurs every five hundred days and consists of four weeks of steady crem-free rain. The middle day of those four weeks is known as the Lightday and alternates between being one clear day in the midst of the rain and being a high storm.{{book ref|WoR|46}} There are typically fewer highstorms in the weeks leading up to the Weeping.{{book ref|WoK|25}} The seasons following the weeping typically have weaker storms, making them good for farming.{{book ref|WoK|4}} BeyondDue this,to thehaving seasonszero areobliquity, aboutRoshar asdoes randomnot asexperience thetrue highstorms.seasons, Theywith canthem beinstead roughlysimply predictedbeing defined by stormwardenscurrent temperature, but only tend to last a few weeksclimate, and don'tstorms, followunrelated anyto obvious patternirradiance.{{wob Theref|11448}} characteristicsThese ofseasons winter,are spring,relatively summerrandom, and autumnare lineoften upquite fairlyshort, wellusually withlasting whatonly wea expectfew from those seasons on Earthweeks.{{book ref|WoKsa1|1825}}{{book ref|WoKsa1|464}} They can be roughly predicted by stormwardens. Seasons are primarily defined by changes in the storms.{{bookwob ref|WoK|2511448}} Due to not being caused by axial tilt, they can vary greatly even between relatively nearby nations on the same hemisphere.{{book ref|WoKsa3|5464}}
 
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