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
Incidentally, she would have a conference, in a bright continental climate, and earn some money.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
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