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Description of feature request

Not really much of a request or suggestion, but it would be nice to have some clear sky in between. Perhaps a variable for the space between cloud formations.

Very pretty, but it just seems to be constantly dark and rainy.. and I'm from the UK!

I guess, a good suggestion might be a way to add weights to the different formations so a big storm might only roll in once in a while?

Yeah, I would really prioritize showers and thundershowers over more complex storms and fronts.
This prioritization should be fine to do with a cumulonimbus cloud region as cumulonimbus clouds would work fine as being naturally localized phenomena.

However, maybe a cloud region could be added that's somewhere between a cumulus and cumulonimbus cloud region (E.g. cumulus congestus), which brings scattered rain showers as well (since nimbostratus/stratus clouds don't make sense to localize as they are typically associated with longer storms).

Yeah, I would really prioritize showers and thundershowers over more complex storms and fronts. This prioritization should be fine to do with a cumulonimbis cloud region as cumulonimbus clouds would work fine as being naturally localized phenomena.

However, maybe a cloud region could be added that's somewhere between a cumulus and cumulonimbus cloud region (E.g. cumulus congestus), which brings scattered rain showers as well (since nimbostratus/stratus clouds don't make sense to localize as they are typically associated with longer storms).

I agree about prioritizing the pop-up/small-scale storms and adding an intermediate type between cumulus and cumulonimbus.

My only note here is I don't think individual storms should contain any potential "severe" weather (with a few exceptions). That should be relegated to organized systems/fronts, which a player should - in my opinion - be able to predict within reasonable extent if they know what they're looking for.

I still think fronts have their place (hence why I wrote a wordwall explaining why) but they shouldn't be overly common and certainly not the only form of stormy weather.

A temporary resolution to this would be to create some 'ClearSky' custom clouds and potentially even some duplicates of cloud formations that were favourable over storms.

Now if I could just figure out how to get the mod to load my saved json files from the editor kindly provided.

Please don't modify the jar, instead you can do this with a datapack

Putting it here for reference: You can add custom clouds to the jar file if nothing else, just open it in whatever archive program and drop the json files into data/simpleclouds/cloud types and then the cloud types should show up when you load a world.

So, I can put my new json files in a datapack on my dedicated server? (/datapacks/packname/data/simpleclouds/cloud_types/)

Or do I need to somehow crowbar this into the modpack people use on my server?

You can just put it in a datapack on your server and it should be synced to all the clients