Fun with climatology: look closely at Koppen-Geiger climate classification map

[steve2470]

Accompanying text: http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1633/2007/hess-11-1633-2007.pdf

For example, southeast Florida has some monsoonal features, and I think there is a very tiny spot of "polar" in Colorado ? You can download the map from my photobucket link or from that pdf file.

/climate and weather geek off, enjoy !

on edit: The only way you can really see the "micro-climates" is if you download the map and use an image viewer like IrfanView. That's how I found the tiny spot of polar, which is probably very high in the mountains.

[Odin2005]

1. Here's a bigger map for you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Koppen_World_Map_%28retouched_version%29.png

[Odin2005]

2. North Africa must of been significantly wetter in Roman times.

Africa Proconsularis, What is now modern Tunisia, was the breadbasket of the western half of the Roman Empire.

[NickB79]

3. Also supplied massive amounts of lumber via the cedar forests

That blanketed the N. African mountains.

[Odin2005]

4. Now that I think of it, IIRC as late as 500 BC the Sahara...

...was not the complete wasteland we see today, it was more like the Mohave and Sonoran deserts, with just enough rain to sustain a patchy "high desert" steppe vegetation.