Why always storms?
 

Why does it seem my patrols in SH3 seem to begin in fantastic weather, clear sky, wind @ 0 m/s.

then after a week i'm into strong 15m/s winds, high seas and poor visibility, and it often remains this way, solidly for nearly a month, then it only eases when i'm on my way home back to base. :shifty:

Anything I can do to tweak this?

That's probably due to the fact that a.) It's winter or autumn, b.) you're patrolling the North-Atlantic / North-Sea.
The weather in Sh3 is IMO way too predictable. When you're up north and it's late in the year, weather always sucks. When you're traveling south towards Africa or South-America, weather is always beautiful and the sea looks like a swimming pool as someone here put it. I believe there is a weather tweaking tool somewhere here, but don't have a link. You might try using the search function on the forum.

im now into June 1941 so I'll have to see. Most the wind's upto atm is 7 m/s which has left me chugging along in 1-2m seas.

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When you start a patrol, the weather is calm because the land buffers the atmosphere.

The North Atlantic is the North Atlantic. It's not known for glass skies and flat seas. Although I have encountered this weather, it's uncommon.

You got to take the rough with the smooth. :D

I dont know if it buffers it, or it's just set to 0 to start. I know I had to sit outside of Bergen for a couple days because the weather was too rough to make down the Fjords, started taking damage on the way in. I wish they modeled the effects of land better, as the 10m deep fjords shouldn't have 6m high seas in them.

One trick I use to keep the good weather rolling is to save after two or three days while the weather is still good, and then reload the save. I usually get another three days of good weather that way. :)

And it works both ways. If you save while the weather is bad you will get a much longer period of bad (and possibly worsening) weather.

When you start a patrol the weather is always good because they screwed it up. If what you say is true then it would always be clear when you returned as well. The land does keep the wind out, which is why they call it "safe harbor", but the game doesn't reflect that either. If a storm is raging when you return home, it will be raging inside the harbor and even inside the sub pens, which is totally unrealistic. Also in real life it can be raining when you set out on a journey, even on land.

True, but it's also not known for storming nonstop for weeks on end. It can happen, but it's also uncommon.