Much of Galveston's modern economy is centered in the tourism, health care, shipping, and financial industries.

Galveston's city council serves as the city's legislative branch, while the city manager works as the chief executive officer and the municipal court system serves as the city's judicial branch.

During this golden era of Galveston's history, the city was home to a number of state firsts that include among others the first post office ( 1836 ), the first naval base ( 1836 ), the first Texas chapter of a Masonic order ( 1840 ); the first cotton compress ( 1842 ), the first parochial school ( Ursuline Academy ) ( 1847 ), the first insurance company ( 1854 ), the first gas lights ( 1856 ), the first opera house ( 1870 ), the first orphanage ( 1876 ), the first telephone ( 1878 ) and the first electric lights ( 1883 ).

Galveston's modern architecture include the American National Insurance Company Tower ( One Moody Plaza ), San Luis Resort South and North Towers, The Breakers Condominiums, The Galvestonian Resort and Condos, One Shearn Moody Plaza, US National Bank Building, the Rainforest Pyramid at Moody Gardens, John Sealy Hospital Towers at UTMB and Medical Arts Building ( also known as Two Moody Plaza ).

The April 15, 1934, opening of Shankweiler's Auto Park in Orefield, Pennsylvania, was followed by Galveston's Drive-In Short Reel Theater ( July 5, 1934 ), the Pico Drive-In Theater West Los Angeles ( September 9, 1934 ) and the Weymouth Drive-In Theatre in Weymouth, Massachusetts ( May 6, 1936 ).

Apparently this is not the time and the climate in which people will listen objectively, or at least dispassionately, to individual impressions of a subject which preoccupies a good deal of their waking moments.

for those who live in a winter climate, there is nothing better than a bucket of water and snow.

Following each individual brick should be a layer of adobe mortar, recommended to be at least an inch thick to make certain there is ample strength between the brick ’ s edges and also to provide a relative moisture barrier during the seasons where the arid climate does produce rain.

The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.

Eastern Anatolia, where the Pontus and Taurus mountain ranges converge, is rugged country with higher elevations, a more severe climate, and greater precipitation than are found on the Anatolian Plateau.

The central plateau is characterized by a continental climate, with hot summers and cold snowy winters.

The drier and more continental climate is beneficial for steppe-forests dominated by deciduous oaks, with areas of shrubland, montane forest, and valley forest.

Current opinion holds that the closer cultural similarity between the Mogollon and Ancient Pueblos and their greater differences from the Hohokam and Patayan is due to both the geography and the variety of climate zones in the Southwest.

The climate is highland continental: hot summers and cold winters.

Callicott is, perhaps, best known for his research which explores an Aldo Leopold ethic as a response to global climate change.

The climate of Alabama is humid subtropical.

The area around Abensberg, the so-called sand belt between Siegburg, Neustadt an der Donau, Abensberg and Langquaid, is used for the intensive farming of asparagus, due to the optimal soil condition and climate.

The climate is typical of tropical islands of similar latitude.

The climate is dry, temperate, and continental, with extreme variations between seasons.

The climate in Abadan is arid and similar to Baghdad's, but slightly hotter due to Abadan's lower latitude.

Evidence of this is the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave, a periodic oscillation that affects the climate of much of the southern hemisphere.

After studying the circumpolar current it is clear that it strongly influences regional and global climate as well as underwater biodiversity.

While ecologically sparse, the habitat's climate is controlled by complex machinery in the lower levels.

The shelter provided by these two mountainous ridges has produced a " micro climate " which provides relatively mild temperatures for the region and, coupled with the fertile glacial sedimentary soils on the valley floor, the region is conducive to growing vegetable and fruit crops.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

The region is noted for its mild rainy climate and beautiful scenery.

Attribution of recent climate change is the effort to scientifically ascertain mechanisms responsible for recent changes observed in the Earth's climate.

Attribution of recent climate change to human activities is based on multiple lines of evidence:

Due to its location in the European Plains, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate.

Bordeaux's climate is usually classified as an oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfb ); however, the summers tend to be warmer and the winters milder than most areas of similar classification.

Substantial summer rainfall prevents its climate from being classified as Mediterranean.

Places with more than three months of average daily temperatures above and a coldest month temperature below and which do not meet the criteria for an arid or semiarid climate, are classified as continental.

* Forests can also be classified more specifically based on the climate and the dominant tree species present, resulting in numerous different forest types ( e. g., ponderosa pine / Douglas-fir forest ).

Its climate zone can be classified as continental.

Northern Labrador is classified as a polar tundra climate, southern Labrador has a subarctic climate while most of Newfoundland would be humid continental climate, Dfb: Cool summer subtype.

Northern Labrador is classified as a polar tundra climate, southern Labrador has a subarctic climate.

The climate of St. Kitts and Nevis is classified as tropical marine with a wet and a dry season.

Under the Köppen climate classification, Santiago de Compostela has a humid oceanic ( Cfb ) climate, with drier summers, so sometimes being classified as a Csb climate, similar to that of the coastal strips of Oregon, Washington and Vancouver, in the western coast of North America.

This climate is classified as Dfc, Dwc, Dsc, Dfd and Dwd in the Köppen climate classification scheme, meaning that the short summer ( 24-hr average 10 ° C or more ) lasts 1 – 3 months and always less than 4 months.

Uzbekistan's climate is classified as continental, with hot summers and cool winters.

Toulouse has a temperate climate that is usually classified as oceanic ( Cfb ) under the Köppen climate classification, falling just short of a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) classification.

Toulouse is located at the junction with the Mediterranean climate zone, but uniform precipitation prevents it from being classified this way.

The climate is classified as tropical marine which means that there is little seasonal temperature variation.