Originally posted by Mharr:

You can test this yourself, back up your world and record the wind pattern for a few minutes, then reload the start of that day and check it again. I believe it's generating on a fixed seed wrt the game clock.

A few minutes would not cut it.

You have storm and wind moving across the entire seed. So staying put in 1 place won't cut it because at sea you are always moving. Staying in 1 place on land a person can easily see the winds and storm systems change over the course of a day.

Originally posted by esbenmf:

Confirmation bias: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Yup, you get it.

This is right up there with the conspiracy theory that it always rains when a person is putting a roof on a building.