I have read through previous questions here about seasons on a tidally-locked moon (I'm hoping this is far enough away from those to not be a duplicate question) and I think I understand the theory of it. What I'm struggling with is what those seasons would look like 'in practice', especially regarding my moon--more specifically, the supercontinent on which my worldbuilding takes place.
Planet | Moon |
---|---|
Mass: 1.2 Jupiter | 0.6 Earth |
Radius: 1 | 0.926 Earth |
Obliquity: 23° | 6° |
Rotational Period: 10.7 hour | 6 days |
Orbital Period: 1.76 years | ^ |
Distance: 1.52 AU | 0.00625 AU |
Semi-major axis: 1.46 AU | 0.00677 AU |
/ | Atmosphere 1.99 M/Earth, Pressure 1.7atm, Density 2.230 kg/m3 |
The supercontinent spans one of the poles, but that mass is smaller than that near/on the equator, and a part of it goes beyond the equator but not far enough away from it to become significantly cold again. All of it lies on the planet-facing side of the moon. I'm not at all concerned with the sun-facing side, so I don't need any information on that.
Now I know the seasons are caused by the tilt and that as a moon orbits its planet (and the planet the sun over its 1.76 year orbit), different 'ends' of the axis are closer or farther away from the sun, hence the seasonal change. I also know that regions near the equator have rainy and dry seasons but little temperature change over the year.
What I don't quite get is what all of this combined would look like. So, what the seasons are like on my supercontinent, on my moon. Are they the same as they would be on earth, only slightly longer? So my regions near the equator have a dry and a rainy season of 321.42 days each, while variations would be 'stronger' at the polar end, with a seasonal cycle akin to that of earth's near-polar regions?