The Mediterranean Climate - Secrets of World Climate #6 

A common confession for those who've only lived in such a climate ;)

​@@Geodiode can you imagine How strange is to someone who lived ALL HIS life in Lima, Peru, discover rain?

For my part I am one among the world's many, many humid subtropical denizens who failed to realize until a few years ago snow is not supposed to be a one in a year occurance and that all grass was not supposed to be unanimously evergreen. I feel so robbed.

Same! I live in a hot desert climate with Mediterranean precipitation patterns. The little rain we get in winter comes from low-pressure systems coming off the Mediterranean sea.

This is so hilarious😂 I live in temperate climate in Russia and experience every season: cold and snowy, warm (-5-10) and dry winters; wet spring; warm and rainy, hot and dry summer; warm to cold wet autumn.

Good to hear. And so you can imagine I get tired of people saying "Seattle is not Mediterranean". It's not Oceanic either. Believe me, I live in Britain and we have frequent downpours and thunderstorms throughout the summer here. Also check out my "Pacific Northwest Climate" video for more detail.

Same, Israel here. Although I grew up in France but somehow I thought it just happens to be cold enough for the rain to not stop even in summer

damn, what a big world. I live in southeastern Brazil and here it is exactly the opposite: summer is cloudy and rainy and winter is sunny and dry

@@Geodiode I think the dreariness is a factor even though precipitation wise is Warm Summer Mediterranean. The gloominess and number of cloudy days is a factor. I wonder how Galicia, Asturias and the adjacent Cantabrian Mountains compare to the Pacific Northwest and Northern California Coast Range.

I live on the east coast so I’ve always associated summer with annoying evening thunderstorms and humidity. I visited California last summer and now I know what real summer vacation should be!!🌴🌴☀️☀️☀️☀️

Me too from Greece man.The north is a transitional place from a Mediterranean to a humid continental climate and many cities like Kozani built in the middle experience a humid subtropical climate,hence the summer rains.

So True! I’m suffering from the same brown vegetation in Israel. Let’s move to Central Europe together haha

svankensen funny thing is that in South America chile is the exception with its winter rains and dry summers.

@@alaskanbullworm5500 I am Chilean, and for me the normal of life is that it only rains in winter, and that summer is very dry. I thought it was like that everywhere, but growing up I discovered that Chile is an exception in South America, not the norm.

I'm a Canadian who now lives in a Mediterranean climate in Europe. In south eastern Canada we get rain in the spring with hot and humid summers. We get cold and dry winters with the occasional snow storm. The Mediterranean climate is completely upside down from what I'm used to. And it's great

Brazilian here who visited Chile and had the opposite problem lol. I visited in winter to go skiing and was really surprised by the winter rains in Santiago and Valparaíso

Agreed. It's my favourite. And thanks for the sub!

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except in winter, that is the only time of the year where it rains a lot and there are many clouds.

@@jonathansaavedra8135 True. Even in winter though it can be pretty sunny in Csa areas such as Southern California!🌞🌴

And all of the vegetation is dying! And the air is dry and unbreathable! And let’s not forget the dust storms! What a great climate 🤦🏻‍♂️😷🤧🤢🤮

I live in the UK, which has an oceanic climate. If I was forced to move to the US, I’d probably choose to live in either Washington or Oregon, since the oceanic climate doesn’t really exist there. Csb is the closest you can get to it, and I’m used to going to Southern Europe and Anatolia on holidays. P.S. The only slightly more Southern latitude would mean that the daylight cycle would almost be the same, and because of the precipitation occurring when it is cooler, there would be more chance of snow. One of the worst things about the oceanic climate is that there is no guaranteed snow during the winter. The annoying thing is that Istanbul gets much more snow in the winter than we get in England, which I saw for myself on my winter visits to the city.

Very good comparison. And thank you for the sub!

@Dolev Klachin It's mostly from urban development, and "Heat Island" effect in combination with large agricultural green zones adjacent to large coastal cities. Same thing in Egypt; Cairo specific. That city is rather far inland surrounded by desert plateau. But it still gets rather humid in the summer.

Portugal is the same! We even have the joke of "mom always makes you take a jacket with you if you're going out." 😂😂

I didn’t know about this until last summer when my family visited California. (I loved it so much, maybe my favorite state!) We stayed in Santa Monica and temperatures were pleasant and beautiful, but we one day went to Universal and the high was 90 degrees vs. at the coast 79 degrees!! At least both had 0% cloud cover!!☀️☀️

In the summer the low temp can be as low as 55f while the high temps can be as high 85f on average

@@catsjacinto I can relate. Me and my family live in the San Francisco Bay Area and my mom always asks me if I brought a jacket or hoodie even during the summer

A comment that we get often here! Glad you enjoyed it and found it enlightening.

@@Geodiodemorocco algeria tunisia =a part of the mediteranean so what do you suspect.

Same with us albanians 🇦🇱❤️

I think palms are the symbol because I visited LA and some California cities so there is many palms and I agree with olive oil

@@KSubscribersWithoutAnyVi-yj4ld Around the Mediterranean there not so many palm trees, very few actually except the planted ones. Olive though is from the Mediterranean so that's normal it's not symbolic in California

@@KSubscribersWithoutAnyVi-yj4ld Palm trees are mostly an imported plant, not really occurring naturally in mediterranean areas. :)

I agree Algeria

100%! It's my favourite climate, as I mentioned at the end!

Your visits must have been for a few days or maybe a week.

@@apexone5502 Yeah these were vacations I took, so I was only there a few days to a week each time. I actually remember that when I visited Charleston SC a few years back, it did actually rain for like an hour. But I forgot about that when I wrote the above comment and it was barely any rain anyways.

@@bryannuxoll9479 yeah, I had figured that was the case. Easy to see how it had never dawned on you that rain in this part of the states is a year round thing. I had to get used to rain being something that's seasonal when I was in Iraq. Like, I knew arid/semi arid areas weren't rainy year round but it was still crazy to experience it since I was so used to rain being a thing that can happen every month throughout the year.

I live in Iraq and i had the exact same thought as you😂i thought that most places had the majority of their rain the the winter , oh and i remember visiting Istanbul in summer and it rained good multiple times and i loved it so much !

As someone from Chile’s capital (same mediterranean climate) I also thought summers were always dry. When i visited tropical countries, or just subtropical, I was shocked too to see rain in summer/hot climate hahah

@@mercurius_exalted It depends where you are, I live in Perth and summers average a maximum temperature of 31C so it's hot, but not usually unbearable.

One of the islands of the Azores, Flores, has an oceanic climate, and the most so out of every existing island in the world. It's not like the northwest Pacific or anything, but it's extremely similar to Plato's Atlantis.

LOL I live in Southern California and I thought the same thing.

@@tacocruiser4238 SoCal represent 👍

@jim doe True. Los Angeles's climate is far more comparable to Casablanca, Morocco's rather than Rome's.

Haha, I thought so too, even though I live in a cfb climate (the Netherlands)... Probably I just notice the rain more in autumn and winter, because rain doesn't make your day better at all when it's already cold and gloomy.

Dude you literally feel the same way I do. "breeze under a shade of pine tree" is exactly what I miss. I need to move back to this climate areas.

@@Kakiharaichii Lol . Indeed man . Ppl of that great Sea have so much in common ..

I got this weird feeling from reading this love our big historic great sea and climate ❤

@@Geodiode i still think Mediterranean sea in europe climate differs from those like n american , african or australian part who fell in this category just cause of weather, different plants and animals etc

Albania is also beautiful. Great beaches, great food, good weathet, and cheaper than its neighbors.

@@sm3675 cant argue with that, you might be right, but greece and italy has so much ancient relics of civilization past.

A summer in San Francisco is as dry as the Namib or the Atacama all year. One way of looking at San Francisco is having a winter (November to February) as typical of a Cfb climate and a summer that feels like a hot desert -- in the winter. The salient features of a Mediterranean climate is mild winters and mild to very hot summers, and adequate rainfall only as heavy rains in the winter or near-winter. San Francisco is truly subtropical, as the plant life (including palm trees) show.

@@paulbrower4265 california is truly amazing if we talk about weather, nature and stuff, but one thing i would be afraid living there is tectonic plates at that place, its just matter of time till next big earthquake ;\

The Mediterranean Climate does have it's own dangers though. Wildfires, droughts, and flooding are significant risks. The water supply is extremely reliant on winter precipitation. If you have a dry winter, then you have to wait 6-9 months until the next rainfall.

Coronavirus also loves the Mediterranean climate.

@@BadassBikerOwns Not too much, I think, she emigrated to America.

@@BadassBikerOwns Northern Italy is mostly humid subtropical.

lol such an eurocentric and arrogant way to say it. How can you even measure the "richness" of a culture? of its people? by the buildings they built with slaves? with the democracy that thrived on ocupations, war and slavery? what kid of culture does the mediterranean really have? Look im not telling you it sucks but dont be such an ass to say one culture can be "better" when all over the world the culture is rich and beautiful in very different ways.

@Geodiode The whole eastern Mediterranean coast has high humidity in summer. Its effects are even observed in olive trees, olive trees near the coast don't grow very well and fruit quality is not high. Just going 80 to 100 km from coast and the growth and fruit quality increases a lot.

@@Geodiode High sea surface temperatures lead to high humidity. I actually like humid heat if it's not too much but many people were surprised when they went to Beirut and saw the humidity.

@@Geodiode It is not local conditions. It affects the whole Mediterranean sea, especially on the eastern side. The reason for this is that Mediterranean climates which are adjacent to large oceans like the mediterranean climates in USA and Chile (Pacific Ocean), South Africa, Morocco and Portugal (Atlantic ocean), Australia (Indian and Pacific Ocean) have low to very low humidity in summer while Mediterranean climates adjacent to smaller marginal seas like the Mediterranean sea have moderate to high humidity during summer. The reason for this is that in large oceans Mediterranean climates are located near cold currents which cools the water and reduces evaporation while Mediterranean climates in small seas are not affected by such currents so the water warms during summer increasing humidity.

@Rohan Rajan Mediterranean climates in North America, South America don't have high dew points and muggy summer weather. The relative humidity is high but the dew point is low because of low temperature at the coast. But in eastern Mediterranean both humidity and dew points are high and the weather is often muggy.

Likely the unusually high sea temperatures. Mediterranean climates also generally have cooler coastal waters. Another interesting thing is that due to this outlier the Mediterranean sea has due to being warmer, it experiences hurricanes.

Elsewhere you mentioned that you are "tired" of people in Seattle refusing to believe the live in a Mediterranean climate zone, but I know one reason for this: many in Seattle, me included, are originally from California. Starting in the 1980s, many Californians moved northward to Seattle, and complained about the rainy cool weather there, always comparing it to warmer and sunnier California. This migration waxes and wanes, and continues today.

Also, to complicate things further, many Northwesterners do not like so many Californians moving in, and try to discourage them by claiming the weather here is awful and it always rains and there is never any sunshine. That is not true of course, but many believe it.

Thanks some very interesting info on attitudes. I didn't know so many Californians had emigrated northwards.

Thanks very much Tyler! I'm really glad you found the channel, and yes, you are right about the lack of visual educational content in this area, especially that which shows **real** places that exemplify the science. I noticed it 4 years ago, hence why I chose this subject to focus on.

Well at least Israel has the some of the best resources to deal with drought.

@@jackscinema1706 kinda, but the Dead sea still dying 😓

True, we really need to do something huge to curb climate change!

While it is true of the few rains in central Chile in recent times, some necessary nuances must be made If you appreciate the geography and the general "visual panorama" of the European Mediterranean coasts (especially those adjacent to Italy, Greece, the Ionian Sea and the Cycladic islands) they are and look literally arid and with meager vegetation (and null in some cases) compared to central Chile, and yet these European coasts have a Mediterranean climate or biome. For example, in the Greek Cycladic the annual average of sunny days (clear) is over 300 days per year. There are many factors that determine or condition the Mediterranean climate both in the European Mediterranean and in the Chilean Mediterranean; for example, in the European Mediterranean there is no Humboldt current; in Chile yes. Or for example, Chile is the country with the coldest annual average temperatures in all of Latin America (8.37) while Italy, Greece, Spain and France average 11.5 ° 13.66 °, 13.03 ° and 10.54 ° respectively; The Chilean Sea is an "iceberg" (even in summer) compared to the South Atlantic coast or any South American sea ... it is not worth comparing it with the warm European Mediterranean Sea. Greetings from Valparaíso, Chile

@@Andy-xm1fg agradezco el tiempo, pero no sé a qué intentas llegar. En ningún momento comparé el clima chileno con el europeo mediterráneo, solo dije que el clima aquí en Santiago y Chile central va dejando de ser mediterráneo para transformarse en un semiárido, lo cual indiscutiblemente ha ido acabando con la vegetación nativa (peumo, boldo, quillay, litre) y dejando solo las más resistentes como el espino, el algarrobo y los arbustos. Saludos.

@@themetalmastah666 Update: in the winter of 2022, large amounts of rainwater returned to the central area, setting a rainfall record (even the Aculeo Lagoon recovered its waters) and the cycle of the El Niño phenomenon also began, so the outlook for heavy rains winter weather for the coming years is auspicious. What you mention is false: in no case is the climate of Santiago or the adjacent valleys of the central zone close to becoming semi-arid, much less the coastal zone of Region V. Where a semi-arid climate does exist, it has always been in the north of the Coquimbo Region. It is also false that the plant species you mention are beginning to become extinct, because none of them are on the official list of endangered plants in the central zone: The plants in danger of extinction are Coralillo, Canelillo, Queule, Paramela del Pangue and Capachito, and this danger is not associated with any change in climate from Mediterranean to semi-arid.I recommend that you google the following title "Plantas de Chile en extinción: Estas son las 10 especies que podrían desaparecer a futuro"

@@Andy-xm1fg First, I think you're referring to this winter, 2023, where Santiago recorded 280 mm of rainfall. Second, I recognize my mistake about the plants, I only mentioned the most common plants in the area and not the ones that are most endangered. Third, how is my statement about change in climate false? Following the Köppen classification and doing the math, Santiago and other close areas are becoming a Semi arid. It doesn't matter if we had only one year of decent rainfall, when we had around 13+ years of drought. I'm also not saying it is already a semiarid, I'm saying it's slowly becoming one, since the average rainfall, because of the drought, is getting lower.

@jim doei'm so sorry for you but morocco is totally liberal country, but i'm not surprised you said that cause your ptobably ana american =no general culture hahaha In fact morocco is safer than the US and many europeans countries. Chek it by yourself ;)

@@materre1662 I'm moroccan and morocco is better than the USA, better climate overall, higher biodiversity than usa but lacks the necessary to being advanced and more dense civilisation, but its safer for tourists.

Morroco isn't better than usa usa is bigger than morroco

Are you ok??, morocco is safer for tourists then usa, the only reason people go to usa is to see their family members or to live there because it's rich, morocco has amazing culture and believe or not it was the first country to suggest independence for the USA that's why the US and morocco are friends, morocco is also older than the US it existed as long as the ancient Egyptians and morocco has more endemic organisms than the US, while the US has mainly invasive species from around the world.

I was thrown off by it too, surely those countries are Asian no matter what people commonly associate Asia with.

Yes, I have stayed there, and in particular the East Bay is very temperate. SF itself is a little too damp and foggy.

Now we're not even in summer yet but as a fellow Paulistano, we're getting cooked under 35-40 degrees of heat nearly every day.

humid weather is terrible for me, but mediterranean is good

I would certainly go for Mediterranean too unless I didn't love snow! I can't imagine living in a region where there isn't much snow in Winters.

@@mehdinaqilou2759 In central Chile the climate is Mediterranean, and in winter there is a lot of snow. (In some inland valleys and in the mountains)

@@moonlight-hv9ig In Chile the same thing happens, in the capital (Santiago) snow also falls sometimes, in the area of the country with a Mediterranean climate snow falls every winter. The only place where snow never falls is near the sea.

@@mehdinaqilou2759 As long as you get a bit into the interior you'll find snow almost every winter.

Glad you found it, but I wonder how it was hard to find? I've tried to cover all the search terms in the description.

Me too In my whole life I thought that winter= rain Summer=dry hot and sunny 🤣

Me too

You're welcome!

@@Geodiode I am a geography student & this channel helps me

Absolutely. In fact California has more climate types then any other us state

People tend to forget how diverse California’s climate is. You could go from a hot desert to alpine tundra in a two and a half hour drive

Hi Yechiel you're right, but in this series this area is referred as Middle East or Mediterranean Basin for a better understanding. Hope you can enjoy the rest of the series!

Cyprus has got to have the best climates on earth with the longest summers and mildest winters of any Mediterranean island 😍

@jim doe this is exactly what I'm saying. The Mesaoria plain has a hot semi arid climate which has hotter summers than the hot summer Mediterranean climate. Nicosia, the capital, which is in this plain, has average highs above 37 degrees in the summer, hotter than the costal areas. It also has lower precipitation levels, larger drops of temperature at nightime all year round, often more than 15 degrees between night and day. In the winter though it is colder than the coastal areas. The coastal areas have climate closer to the hot Mediterranean climate. The high mountains are much cooler and rainier. A good 10-12 degrees cooler than Nicosia all year round.

@@andreimihaesi Longer summers for sure, but also much hotter. It is impossible to live without air-conditioning in most of the island and especially Nicosia in the summer. I will disagree about the mild winters because of the large drops we have in temperature at nightime in Nicosia, the largest city. In the winter temperatures drop considerably between day and night, a phenomenon which makes the winter average low temperature, lower than other big cities in the Med. Higher day temperatures but lower night temperature which requires heating.

@jim doe in the winter warmer nights than Nicosia, by about 3 degrees. In the summer, night temperatures are about the same as Nicosia, but much more humid.

@jim doe warmest places in the winter is along the coast. The closest you are to the water, the warmer. Coldest months are January and February. Temperatures are 16-18 in the day and 7-9 at night on average. But there are colder days. For example it can be 12 in the day and 4 at night sometimes. But it never goes to 0 along the coast. Famagusta and Larnaca receive the lowest rainfall in total mm of all the coastal areas. But in Larnaca there have been some flooding issues because of short heavy showers and not very good drainage.

Good to hear! The most isolated major population zone in the world!

Interesting! But not winter?

@@Geodiode winter isn't the rainiest of seasons, no.

Sounds like southern France and Northern Spain. Cfb transitions into csb there too.

Yikes! 11 months is a long time with no rain for a Csa climate. I think the longest drought I experienced in the 9 years I was there was about 8 months.

@@Geodiode Definitely, I spent a year in Portland, OR before moving to The Bay Area. It was quite shocking. Can't say I missed the rain too much though. I love the Sun and Vitamin D :)

Thanks, and yes, this climate would be my choice

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Remember that the Mediterranean Sea is unique in the world, in having a large body of water almost completely enclosed and experiencing a hot summer. This means that sea temperatures are much higher than would be found at such a latitude. Compare with San Diego and the notoriously cold California current. The Med. climate is very strongly a maritime climate (meaning heavy marine influence), and this in a nutshell explains why such warm climates are found so far north compared to other regions. Plus, also the Gulf Stream current that makes Europe in general warm for its latitude.

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Yeup. Definitely prefer Csb over Csa

@@moonlight-hv9ig I've lived in both Seattle and LA, the climate of Seattle has the same pattern of hot, dry summer and cold, wet winter, the difference is in Seattle it's rainy for every season except summer, in LA it's dry every season except winter

Thanks, i appreciate you sharing!

Houston and NYC are Cfa (humid subtropical), not Csa.

Thanks v much! - there's a 4k resolution map here: www.geodiode.com/climate/mediterranean

Thank you!

Once visited there in my teens on a holiday to the Algarve!

Also would like to say, I never seen it rain here in the summer, just the winter. Some winters we get a lot of rain, others almost none. This year so far, (March 2nd 2021) we have only had 3 decent rains. I call a decent rain enough rain to cover the ground and make some puddles.

@@Geodiode I live in OC as well. It seems to rain a bit more there. And is also cooler. Here in lake Elsinore in the winter it can get down to 30f, in oc (by Disneyland) it only gets down to 45F. Coldest I ever seen there was 32f.

@@Geodiode I am not as "bright" when it comes to climate types. But I think it meets desert requirements. Google says it rains 12 inches a year here in lake Elsinore. Witch seems more then normal. EDIT- I think its a (hot dessert) due to the 100f avg summer temp and the rainfall. How is your day by the way?

Thanks!

GeoDiode accurate 👏

Perth is at a relatively low latitude ie. closer to the equator than most places with a Mediterranean climate (32 degrees south) and so it doesn't have especially cold winters therefore maximum temperatures there typically range between 15C and 22C during winter.

Interesting to hear about wine growing in MI. Of course, the killer for any viticulture is rain at the wrong time of year that can lead to parasitic (fungal?) growth. This is why traditionally the Med has been excellent for this crop, with its dry summers.

@@Geodiode Summer rains in Michigan are usually downpours that drain off fast. Rainfall overall in the summer is lower than the evaporation. The grapes are grown as a rule only a short distance from the shore of Lake Michigan. Go appreciably to the east (inland) and the grapes are rarer and basically for household consumption. For an area with only two climate zones (Dfa and Dfb). Michigan has some interesting quirks of climate. Lake Michigan tends to cause drier summers but wetter winters with the infamous lake effect. Michigan is not Mediterranean and not really close to it. Another reality: the line between the Dfa and Dfb climates goes through Battle Creek, and it closely follows the divide between corn (maize) to the south and wheat to the north. Battle Creek is one of the biggest centers for cereal processing and has the headquarters of one of the largest cereal companies in the world. . By the way -- except for the changing colors of autumn and a real winter, the Lake Michigan coast is very similar to coastal California. Michigan produces little volume of wine, but it is more comparable to French or German wines than to true Mediterranean wines.

Wine is not a product of Cs climates.. Wine is clearly a product of latitude. The optimal parallel for wine grapes is the 43 lat. The Grape fruit originally was born in the Caucasus Georgia. So all along this parallel is the areal of Wine The magical possible range for wine seems between the 30-50 lat Wine can grow on the plains like in Puglia or on top of mountain altiplan like in the Alps. It can perfectly grow in standard csa and csb climates; but also on semi arid bs climates; it can grow in oceanic Cfb climates and in Cfa climates (north Italy.. And maybe the wine future regions of China) It even grow in moderate continental D climates like in Hungary and in Washington State of America. Now they make also the prizes gaining Icewines in high continental Canada. The general rule is that usually with lower latitudes the wine are generally more alchoholic; while in higher latitudes they are generally less alchoholic (because of sunrays intensity)

@@paulbrower4265 Yeah.. Michigan is below 50 lat so it is included in the general rule for the wine grapes growing areal. Plus there is the important Lake factor.. Like a mitigator it softens maybe the too deleterious otherwise high continentality for wine

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@@Geodiode Thanks for the reply sir! Yes, the landscape can 'look' Mediterranean but due to the low winter temp typical Mediterranean produce like olives and figs dont really grow. I have another interesting point/ question: Regarding the actual Mediterranean coasts, from my extensive travels I've noticed that locations further north can look more arid than more southerly ones. For example: Much of the Croatian Adriatic coast and even adjacent Bosnia (south) can look quite dry & barren while some 300km south the Ionian west coast of Greece and islands like Corfu are very lush and green, full of pine trees. Would that mean there's more rain in winter at least? In the Aegean though its the opposite - the Cyclades islands like Mykonos are very barren whilst the Sporades, only 150km north are full of greenery. Would winds be responsible for this? Regarding Campania in Italy, around Naples, the Amalfi coast and its islands - they're unbelievably green even in summer, Ischia looks almost tropical in flora, whilst much of the south French coast looks drier, especially around Marseille. This is all contrary to the idea that the further south you go in the Med, the drier/hotter it gets, although that would be the norm obviously.

@@andreimihaesi Indeed, the whole Campania region gets 1000 mm/year and more of rain; while typical oceanic Cfb places in France and also the British isles get less than 800 mm/year. But the thing is that the rain in Campania is more concentrated in specifc seasons (autumn mostly, but also spring) while in Cfb climates rain is all/year round.. So that means than it rain less in Campania, but when it rains it rains more "water" In quantity Italy anyway is quite rainy all along.. In at least 2/3 of it it rains no less than 700 mm/year. This Is very true if you compare my country with Spain with (at least 2/3) are very arid. In Italy it rains more (quantity) or at least the same as in France and the British isles. Why is that? Because Italy is a penisle in the Mediterranean sea.. Right in the middle of it and it is long. (Spain is square that implies more continenatlity and less rain, Greece canzone be rainy too but not as Italy.. Probably because Italy is more in the centre of the Mediterranean)

@@g.c.2916 Grazie per la tua risposta! I have relatives in Napoli and it always amazes me how beautiful and green the lanscape is in that area even in summer. Anything can grow! I was saying that it's very interesting how normally the more south you go, the more arid it is and i dont think anywhere as south as Campania is that green in the Mediterranean! But if you have notices, the east coast, especially Puglia, is much more dry!

@@andreimihaesi Puglia is quite dry, yes. Probably for its location; its more near the balkans.. Squashed there and with just the small Adriatic and Ionan sea

No mediterranea area Is particular only the mediterranea country have this culture Italy Spain France tunisia Marocco Grecia this Is mediterraneo

Yes! It's the reverse of every other seasonally rainy climate

The highland subtropical climate is so confusing because it frets grouped with oceanic and Mediterranean climates even though the reasons for it are different.

Your comment is full of grossly erroneous statements, forgive me for saying so; but I must respond for purely educational purposes. Firstly, what you point out as "Subtropical highland climates" are not located in any of the areas described in the video as having a Mediterranean climate, nor does the Köppen-Geiger global climate classification incur such confusion and association. Furthermore, It must be kept in mind that what essentially characterizes a Subtropical highland climates (Cwb) is its monsoon influence. Meteorological science is clear and precise in this regard: it fully identifies and distinguishes the Subtropical highland climates (Cwb) in other countries and areas other than those countries that have Mediterranean climates, namely: in the interior valleys of central Mexico; in the continental interior of the mountains of southeastern Peru (in the vicinity of its Amazon rainforest, covering parts of northeastern Bolivia); in Brazil ( mainly north of the city of Rio de Janeiro and in the city of Belo Horizonte) in northwestern Ethiopia; much of southwestern Angola, Zimbabwe and Botswana, and in the valley areas adjacent to the Great Mountain Ranges of Asia Central. In this sense, in no study or scientific climate model are the “Subtropical highland climates” grouped or identified to the corresponding areas of the West Coast of the US., central Chile, the Western Cape of South Africa, the western and southern Australia and the coastal areas of the countries of the great Mediterranean basin of Europe and northern Africa. That association simply does not exist; you invented it Secondly, the “dry summer subtropical highland” climate does not exist as a climate as such, you invented that too. Likewise, the climatic acronym that you associated with that invented climate “(Csb)” is seriously erroneous. In fact, the name or acronym "(Csb)” corresponds to the type of Mediterranean climate with more oceanic influence and colder in relation to the Typical Mediterranean climate (Csa) which is warmer. Thirdly, regarding the expression “bioclimatic variables” that you wrote, I assume that you wrote it to “adorn” your comment, but you did not explain what it means or what they consist of, and most likely you ignore it or have not studied it. Well, they are precisely the bioclimatic conditions that are taken into consideration to identify, classify, categorize, systematize and unify the different climates existing on the planet Earth; Thus we can identify some bioclimatic conditions, for example, yearly, seasonal, and monthly means and extremes in temperature and precipitation; and extreme or limiting environmental factors (e.g., temperature of the coldest and warmest month, and precipitation of the wet and dry quarters. But be careful, bioclimatic variables have another function: to identify how climate and temperature influence or have decisive effects on the environment, nature and the respective biome (It is widely used in ecological predictive models and on climate change) Finally, it goes without saying that there is no such thing as “true Mediterranean climates” nor “false Mediterranean climates”, just as there are no true alpine climates, nor false alpine climates, nor true oceanic climates or false tropical climates. Neither science nor any climate study makes this arbitrary and unconsulted distinction or classification.

@Athon51 1. La Vega, Cauca, Colombia. 2. San Sebastián, Cauca, Colombia. 3. Polindara, Cauca, Colombia. 4. Buesaco, Nariño, Colombia. 5. Sapuyes, Nariño, Colombia. If the subtropical highland climate with dry summer Csb didn't exist, it means these places don't exist. There are some other examples around the world but all the ones I remember are in Colombia. A large part of the department of Nariño in Colombia has such a climate. It's a rare climate, so you can't find it everywhere. Before you comment, you could've checked information before spreading misinformation.

Tangier in morocco is wetter than paris also

Th3HungryMan yup your right Mediterranean is often Seen a a dry climant because people judge it by its sunny summers while in reality it’s probably more wet than oceanic while here In the PNW we get rain everyday in starting Sep-Apr

I get what you mean. Porto (Portugal) has dry summers, but apart from summer, in most of the year there are more than 100 milimeters of rain per month. If I’m not mistaken, December actually goes over 200 mm.

Interesting observation. Maybe the white has evolved to reflect the sunlight and heat in the hotter latitudes. Are you a geographer or similar by profession?

@@Geodiode No, but i like to observe. The light refelcts the sunrays and cool the temperature; but those white houses are found typicall below a certain latitude I d say you start to find the roughly at least below 40 lat In Europe those white houses are famous and found in southern Spain and Portugal, southern Italy and Greece Places around the 38 parallel. Those white houses are the norm for israel and the levant, north Africa. In America they are found it seems more in southern part of California; not certainly in the northern part. This is a curious pattern. Which is the latitude that pushes the construction of white cubic without pointy rooves houses?

Yes, correct

Obsolete highland regions in Chile, Hawaii and parts of the colombian andes I believe.

@@Geodiode yeah but I just see Csc climates on the northeast of north America and some on europe on climate maps , is that true?

Cool! You must be up in the mountains.

I found you through a post on reddit! Keep going man, keep reaching out. Your videos are extremely high quality and you should be very proud of yourself

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Thanks for sharing. Yes I've heard New England can have crazy weather. It is technically covered by Koppen in the Continental climate zone, but it's really not so, having Oceanic influences, and dampness due to proximity with the Atlantic.