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continental climate

British  

noun

  1. a climate characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and little rainfall, typical of the interior of a continent

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“I am intoxicated by this landscape,” she wrote, “by the almost flat fields, the swamps, the hardwood bush, by the continental climate with its extravagant winters.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024

The windswept steppe city infamous for its harsh continental climate became the capital in 1997.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2022

New York, long considered to have a humid continental climate, has in recent years become part of the humid subtropical climate zone.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

Meteorologists believe it the source of aerial currents which govern much of our continental climate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The apparent dislike evinced by butterflies to the damp Atlantic Coast climate, they think, clearly indicates that they had originated in a dry and more continental climate.

From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis

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