Been thinking about writing a solarpunk story about a far future where humans live on this habitable Earth-like moon, but I’m wondering how the weather would work if the Earth-like moon is tidally locked to a gas giant and thus one day on the moon corresponds to a full orbit which would be like longer than an Earth week. So parts of the moon would be in night for several Earth days long, and other parts would be regularly eclipsed by the massive gas giant as well, making a sort of night.
How would the weather work in such a case? Would it freeze every night on this world? Or would winds and atmosphere still regulate temperatures?
I’m interested to see the experience of living there!
Maybe this isn’t useful but I’ve generally had pretty good luck asking worldbuilding questions in specialized communities here and on reddit. Sometimes people are really excited to jump into hypotheticals and sometimes I find myself trying to explain the concept of fiction, it’s always interesting seeing which communities go which way.
There’s a weather community on Lemmy and a meteorology subreddit (if you have an account over there) maybe they’d be able to make some more suggestions?
Best of luck!
Thanks!