the european climate interactive map
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🧊 SUBARCTIC AREA 🐻❄️
🏖️ 🐚 MEDITERRANEAN AREA 🐬 🐙
🌊 ATLANTIC AREA 🪼
⛈️ CONTINENTAL AREA 🌁
⛰️ 🏞️ ALPINE AREA 🚠 🧗♀️
THE SUBARCTIC CLIMATE
- In Europe, subarctic climates can be found covering most of Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
- Vegetation is largely limited to hardy coniferous trees.
- The last climate zone found in northern Europe is the marine climate, which also dominates western Europe.
THE ALPINE CLIMATE
- The “alpine environment” is characterised by the temperature of low growing seasons and short “frost-free” period.
- The alpine climate facts state that “Alpine biome” is icy, windy, very cold, and snowy.
- Alpine areas in Europe from West to East: Pyrenees, Alps, Balkans, Carpathians and Urals
THE CONTINENTAL CLIMATE
- The continental climate covers the central and eastern part of Europe.
- Main characteristics of the climate type are cold long lasting winters and predominantly hot summers.
THE MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE
- The Mediterranean climate can be experienced around the Mediterranean sea.
- Countries like Spain, Portugal, Southern France, Italy, Greece and Turkey do all face hot dry summers and mild winters with hardly any frost.
THE ATLANTIC CLIMATE
- The Oceanic climate covers the countries and regions which are influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, North Sea and Baltic Sea.
- The climate usually has mild, wet winters and cool, humid summers.
- Long harsh frost periods are rare just like hot summers.
THE EUROPEAN CLIMATE
- Europe is generally characterized by a temperate climate.
- Most of Western Europe has an Oceanic climate, in the Köppen climate classification, featuring cool to warm summers and cool winters with frequent
overcast skies.
- Southern Europe has a distinctively Mediterranean climate, which features warm to hot, dry summers and cool to mild winters and frequent sunny skies.
- Central-eastern Europe is classified as having a humid continental climate, which features warm to hot summers and cold winters.
- The coastal lowlands of the Mediterranean Basin have more of a wet winter and dry summer season pattern, the winter season extends from October to
February while the summer season is mainly noticeable in the dry months where precipitation can, in some years, become extremely scarce.
- A very small area in the continent features the desert climate which exists in the south-eastern coasts of Spain making them the only places in Europe
that have an arid climate.