[jason taylor]

It can be used to organize the planting of crops. It can be used to organize travel on the micro or macro level. An example on the Macro level comes from Braudel where he points out that the winter was the season for diplomacy because other seasons are the seasons for campaigning(similarly the monsoon ruins overland travel in East Asia but aids sea travel. It is impossible to run a large military campaign during the monsoon.).

Predicting what will happen helps predict when and where to set out, what goods will be in demand at what time of the year and all sorts of things.

In Patrician III I usually recycle from the Low Countries to get wine and Eurasia to get skins and back again. If the weather is timed right I can come in when the goods are at the right price.