I'm rerunning this AP for a new party with great success.
One thing I wanted to share is the way I'm handling weather.
I've decided to model the region's climate after Dresden, Germany. A place I believe is geographically similar (when they go to the woods I show them pictures of the Black Forest) with weather that is not too harsh but gets cold enough in winter to have some snow.
Using this website: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/germany/dresden/historic?month=1&ye ar=2016
I can simulate the weather day by day realistically by using the historic data.
That's a great idea!
I tried using a product bought on Paizo called Dodeca Weather and planned out storms and temperatures in advance because I was maintaining a campaign calendar. I stopped doing it ahead of time because due to the nature of the campaign whole weeks might pass and all of those weather rolls went to waste. When I started to do the weather rolls as needed, I forgot more often than not.
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I pre-roll weather by the month, using a random generator program I found in my old Kingmaker files when I started to re-run this AP. Honestly I've found ALOT of content in my old files. I apparently reworked alot of encounters, did detailed write ups of different NPCs, regions, and events. I even reworked certain aspects of the local Golarion history to make more sense to me and/or allow me to make a certain Lich more involved in the AP. But enough about my work from years ago helping my game today.
I might switch over to your system of weather once we get out of exploration and into kingdom building. I also use the Golarion calendar I found at https://dungeonetics.com/calendar/ to keep me abreast of holidays, the time of year, and just to keep track of how long the group is out and doing things.