# Moving North to avoid the heat
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/moving-north-to-avoid-the-heat/24178
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [July 17, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/moving-north-to-avoid-the-heat/24178 "2020-07-17T12:25:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@H3AV3NF3L](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/H3AV3NF3L)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/moving-north-to-avoid-the-heat/24178/1 "2020-07-17T12:25:45Z")
My character unfortunately mutated and gained a really thick fur in the middle of Autumn although winter approaches soon, I can’t just stand having myself scorched to death stuck inside my own base, so I figure maybe I should move north and maybe I could go into colder regions, is there really a place like that?
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### Author:  [@mlangsdorf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/mlangsdorf)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/moving-north-to-avoid-the-heat/24178/2 "2020-07-17T12:34:24Z")
Not currently. The entire game is set within 1 region which has a single climate.
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### Author:  [@H3AV3NF3L](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/H3AV3NF3L)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/moving-north-to-avoid-the-heat/24178/3 "2020-07-17T13:20:46Z")
Would it be possible to code in like a temperature modifier that analyzes the player’s distance from its starting point and when a player hits a certain length it would throttle the temperature depending on which direction the player took?
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### Author:  [@MutaMan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MutaMan)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/moving-north-to-avoid-the-heat/24178/4 "2020-07-17T14:17:25Z")
If that’s implemented then biome generation might as well be in too, because you’re not going to get much of a temperature difference by going north or south if you still stay more or less in the same region.
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### Author:  [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/moving-north-to-avoid-the-heat/24178/5 "2020-07-17T15:54:33Z")
Anything is possible. Someone just needs to work on it.
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### Author:  [@mlangsdorf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/mlangsdorf)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/moving-north-to-avoid-the-heat/24178/6 "2020-07-17T16:39:26Z")
I thought it was pretty close to 1/2 degree F per degree of latitude (0.7 C per degree latitude, per [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031198/#:~:text=vertical%20range%20extent.-,Latitudinal%20temperature%20gradients,Southern%20Hemisphere%20(Figure%20S2)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031198/#:~:text=vertical%20range%20extent.-,Latitudinal%20temperature%20gradients,Southern%20Hemisphere%20(Figure%20S2)) which is 0.4 F - pretty close). It’d be more than a few hours’ drive before you really start changing climates, and even then the difference is pretty mild. Within CDDA’s climate model, southern Canada, New England, and the mid-Atlantic states like Maryland are all pretty much the same thing.