This datapack will add weather to deserts. While in a desert when it is raining or thundering in the world, the player will see and hear the effects of a sandstorm. Because this uses predicates to detect biomes, this will only work in 1.15+. It may be possible to make this work in 1.13/1.14 if anyone is interested.


Features:

• Works with the world's normal weather cycles.
• "Rain" weather will cause sand particles to appear and wind noise to pick up
• "Thunder" weather will cause louder wind and limit visibility.
• Walking "indoors" will cancel the effect (as long as there are blocks above the head).

I am still working on the following:

• Currently only works in desert biome variants, but this can be expanded to mesa fairly easily (might add an option to do mesa storms as well... using red sand instead?).
• I would like the sand particles to go slightly sideways instead of downward.
• Blindness is nice for cutting visibility, but there needs to be a way to adjust it as currently blindness has no value (maybe in 1.17?)
  
• Would like better "indoor" detection.
  

If anyone sees issues or has ideas to fix some of the issues, please let me know. I will keep working on it and try to incorporate the things I am working on and post updates. This should also work on multiplayer worlds, but if it does not, please let me know!

Project this pack was originally made for: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/blasted-landscape/
Discord channel for the project I'm working on (where this datapack came from): https://discord.gg/ygQabgk