Pokémon show up all over Pokémon Go. However, some of them do receive a weather trait during certain weather conditions that occur in your area. It is important to optimize the capture of Pokémon when this happens and to be able to know when a Pokémon is receiving a weather boost.
You will be able to see when a Pokémon is receiving the weather boost before attempting to catch it based on a small swirling fog around them. It surrounds them as you watch them in the application. The various weather increases vary from rainy, windy, foggy, sunny, cloudy, snowy and partly cloudy. They all influence the different moves of Pokémon and their respective Pokémon to make them stronger in combat.
These are all the Pokémon Go weather improvements and the Pokémon they affect:
- Sunny: fire, grass and earth
- Windy: Ground, Flying, and psychic types
- Rainy: water, electric and types of bugs
- Snow: types of ice and steel
- Fog: dark and ghost type
- Cloudy: Fairy, Combat and Poison type
- Partly cloudy: normal and rock types
When you catch a climate-boosted Pokémon, you receive additional stardust after successfully catching it. It may also be necessary to capture climate-enhanced Pokémon for certain research and research activities. Unfortunately, there is no way to affect the weather in Pokémon Go. You will have to wait until a Pokémon of a specific type shows up during the particular weather effect, which also increases the chance of them occurring.
You want to look for the little swirling aura that surrounds Pokémon in the overworlds to make sure you catch the right creatures to get the effect. The more you see under this influence, the more stardust you can get.
