Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25009223-20140608002928

From what I read of the 1st edition Cyrodil was composedm sotly of an equatorial rainforest. Ofcourse this was change into atemperate, european esque enviroment ofr oblivion. I wm just wondering from envirosceience persepective, which maeksm ore senes. I figure if the equator runs near or on cyrodil then it makes sense that hammerfell is a scrub/desert, but then what about skyrim which lays directly north and is a generall cold place. I also wonder where morrowind sits in all of this, it has similar latitiude to to skyim but is referred to as being fairly hot. Could the volcanoc activity keep local temperatures helevated?

Ofocurse this is a fantasy world so one shouldnt get too worried about whether the enviroments are 100 percent plausble, but i finf it to be an interestign discussion. 