Climate Types

When you see a climate heading in some of the other posts, this page is the best to refer to to understand what they mean.

• Tropical Moist (rainforest): high humidity and rainfall
• Wet-Dry Tropical (savannah): characterized by a wet season and a dry season
• Tropical Monsoon: characterized by high temperatures and a lot of precipitation year-round
• Dry Tropical (desert): intense heat, arid
• Dry Mid-latitude (steppe): dry, semiarid, cold winters
• Mediterranean (chaparral): characterized by a wet winter and a dry summer
• Dry Mid-latitude (grassland): dry, characterized by cold winters and warm summers
• Marine West Coast: characterized by a lot of rain year-round and few temperature extremes
• Moist Continental (deciduous forest): characterized by large temperature changes between seasons
• Boreal Forest (taiga): characterized by long, cold winters and short, cool summers; rather humid
• Tundra: characterized by long, severe winters
• Highland (alpine): found in mountain ranges and generally take on the characteristics of the next-closest climate