Rockstar Confirms GTA 6 Simulates Tropical Storms and Hurricanes

It sounds like Grand Theft Auto 6 will take open world weather effects to another level, with simulated tropical storms and hurricanes.

We already knew that GTA 6 would have an advanced weather system of some kind. But in Game Informer's GTA 6 cover story, senior associate editor Marcus Stewart described the need for Leonida to have diverse weather, due to Florida's tendency to have wild shifts in its climate. And, it seems like Rockstar has that covered.

Rockstar vice president of art for lighting and rendering, Owen Shepherd, told Stewart, "We have re-engineered our weather system to make everything much more localized and persistent," and that "the world features new fully dynamic cloudscapes that roll across the map."

We already know that GTA 6 is going to have a map that's three times larger than the ones found in Grand Theft Auto 5 and in Red Dead Redemption 2, so it's even more impressive that the game will be …