Continental Climate

The continental climate is a Climat which relates to areas far away from the Littoral or receiving the winds and precipitations of the interior of the continent to Latitude S averages. It is characterized by strong a thermal Amplitude intermensuelle (more than 30°C).

Typology

Continental climates

The more one moves away from the littoral, the more the oceanic climate degrades oneself: precipitations decrease, the winters are more cold than on the coast. Typology is that of Georges Viers.
The climate hypercontinental: the annual thermal amplitude reaches its maximum in Iakoutie, Yellowknife. They are areas high latitudes which combine the effects of the continentality and the seasonal differences. The thermal amplitude is for example of 66°C with Verkhoïansk.

Climates of Eastern frontage

One finds there important thermal contrasts between the summer and the winter, because of the alternation of powerful, cold flows in winter, heats in summer. During these two seasons, these flows do not follow the west-east orientation but are of North-South orientation in winter and south-north in summer: one calls that alternate meridian circulation. Meridian flows cause the invasion of the masses of air polar in winter ( cold waves in January - February in the USA), and of the masses of tropical air in summer: also, the climate of Eastern frontage is distinguished from the continental climate by its hot and wet summers: 26,3°C with Saint-Louis (latitude: 39,4°N) with the United States, 26,4°C with Tianjin (latitude: 39°N) in China. The areas concerned are is the United States (except the Florida) and the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and of the Canada, is Popular republic of China, Corées, Japan.

Flora

The vegetable formations are very varied

the Prairies, savannas and bush moderate
the Taïga
the mixed Forêt

Climatic diagrams

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