Mediterranean climate

noun

1. a climate having sunny, hot, dry summers and rainy winters.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Mediterranean climate¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

On Craig’s advice, Kolding and Estrada also enrolled in Long Beach’s Lawn to Garden program, which provides a $3-per-square-foot rebate for landscapes that replace lawns with California native plants or “California-friendly” plants suitable for a Mediterranean climate.

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The promotion of Southern California’s Mediterranean climate took hold in the first decade after the Gold Rush and continued into the new century.

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Researchers at the Pacific Institute, a water think tank in Oakland, have examined the potential for California to use water more efficiently by making improvements such as fixing leaks in pipes, replacing inefficient washing machines and toilets, and replacing thirsty lawns with plants suited to the state’s Mediterranean climate.

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"If we have major heatwaves and wildfires all across the Med in three or four out of the next five summers, this may well be a tipping point in public perception, going from 'the Mediterranean climate is ideal for summer holidays' to 'the Mediterranean is just unbearably hot in summer; let's go somewhere else'."

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“Our Mediterranean climate doesn’t allow for our rivers and streams, and the creeks that flow into them, to flow permanently,” Bothwell said.

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