Description
The Köppen definition of this climate is for the coldest month's mean temperature to be between −3 °C (26.6 °F), although some climatologists prefer to use 0 °C (32 °F), and 18 °C (64.4 °F), and the warmest month to be above 22 °C (71.6 °F). It is either accompanied with a dry winter (Köppen: w) — or has no distinguished dry season (Köppen: f).
Significant amounts of precipitation occur in all seasons in most areas, and though in regions bordering on semi-arid climates (usually at the western margins), irregular droughts can be common and catastrophic to agriculture. Winter rainfall (and sometimes snowfall) is associated with large storms that the westerlies steer from west to east. Most summer rainfall occurs during thunderstorms and an occasional tropical storm, hurricane or cyclone.
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