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continental climate

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noun

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

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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.

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Thus the beech, a characteristic tree of western Europe, is unable to face the continental climate of Russia, and does not penetrate beyond Poland and the south-western provinces, reappearing again in the Crimea.

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