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blog post about tidally-locked exoplanets actually being quite habitable

>All about the hypothetical climates of tidally-locked exoplanets — “the popular perception of tidal-locked planets—hostile worlds split between a burning desert on the lit hemisphere, ice on the dark side, and, at best, a thin "twilight strip" of habitable temperatures in between, wracked by gale-force winds—is not a strictly impossible scenario in all its particulars, but our current best climate models predict (and have for quite some time now) that tidal-locked planets in the habitable zone with Earth-like atmospheres and quantities of surface water can more typically expect far more hospitable conditions, with comfortable temperatures and moderate prevailing winds across the lit hemisphere; that the hottest part of the planet will usually actually be the wettest; and that this habitable climate state may actually be more stable in some ways than that of a planet more like our own.”

https://worldbuildingpasta.blogspot.com/2024/03/hurried-thoughts-youre-wrong-about.html