continental climate
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Western exposures benefit from the generally eastward movement of weather systems; southern and eastern slopes benefit from the clockwise circulation around the high-pressure systems that are characteristic of the continental climate.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.
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