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continental climate

noun

  1. a climate characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and little rainfall, typical of the interior of a continent
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“I am intoxicated by this landscape,†she wrote, “by the almost flat fields, the swamps, the hardwood bush, by the continental climate with its extravagant winters.â€

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The windswept steppe city infamous for its harsh continental climate became the capital in 1997.

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New York, long considered to have a humid continental climate, has in recent years become part of the humid subtropical climate zone.

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New York City, after years of being considered a humid continental climate, now sits within the humid subtropical climate zone.

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For Ukrainians it has come as a surprise to see their continental climate seem more like the Mediterranean.

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