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The drier and more continental climate is beneficial for steppe-forests dominated by deciduous oaks, with areas of shrubland, montane forest, and valley forest.
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Southern California gasped and blinked under an autumn hot spell, drier, more enervating, more laden with man's contrived impurities than the worst days of the summer past.
The flavour is typically less malty than a traditional bock, and may be drier, hoppier, and more bitter, but still with a relatively low hop flavour, with a mild spicy or peppery quality from the hops, increased carbonation and alcohol content.
The area is drier and more prone to droughts than other parts of southern Manitoba.
A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in taxonomy, but is common in popular culture, in which toads are associated with drier skin and more terrestrial habitats than frogs.
The Vancouver Island Ranges run most of the length of the island, dividing it into a wet and rugged west coast and a drier, more rolling east coast.
The drier air can cause skin to crack and become irritated more easily.
The city has no true dry season, all 12 months of the year average more than 60 mm of precipitation, but the city does experience noticeably wetter and drier periods during the year.
The amount of time a steak is cooked is based upon personal preference ; shorter cooking times retain more juice, whereas longer steak cooking times result in drier, tougher meat but reduce concerns about disease.
The taste is quite different from lychees ; while longan have a drier sweetness, lychees are often messily juicy with a more tropical, sour sweetness.
Like the platypus, they are equipped with electrosensors, but while the platypus has 40, 000 electroreceptors on its bill, the long-billed echidna has only 2, 000, and the short-billed echidna, which lives in a drier environment, has no more than 400 located at the tip of its snout.
The 1960s saw a large increase in rainfall in the region, making the northern drier region more accessible.
There is a brief, moderately wet season in May, followed by a brief, moderately dry season June through July, and then a more prolonged, intense wet season in September through October, followed by a longer, drier season December through April.
Since the later days of the harpsichord ( 17th – 18th century ), stringed keyboard instruments could have registers, for instance giving a drier or more ample sound when the instrument's stop was pulled ( a stop in the meaning of a similar disposition for organs, known as organ stops ).
The Black Mountains are located at the northern-most end of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, where world heritage listed wet tropical forests meet drier savanna woodlands-making it a natural refuge for once more widespread, now isolated relict fauna.
It did not look as though such a bony face as this could give normal utterance, but rather that instead of sounds, something more brittle, more ancient, something drier would emerge, something more in the nature of a splinter or a fragment of stone.
Leticia does have noticeably wetter and drier months, with its wettest month ( May ) seeing a little more than twice as much precipitation as its driest month ( July ).
By the 1920s, a combination of the end of the agricultural boom occasioned by World War I and a return to more normal ( i. e., drier ) climatic conditions drove many of the settlers from their farms.
Bell Hill gets somewhat more precipitation than Sequim but is drier than most western Washington areas.
In North East England, " Best Scotch " refers to a beer similar to Mild Ale but with a drier, more burnt palate.
The second series saw a move away from the drier and more realistic style of the first, a move that was at odds with more recent sitcoms, most notably The Office.
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The central and eastern plateau, with its drier continental climate, has deciduous forests and forest steppes.
* Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests: These forests occupy the mountains of northern Anatolia, running east and west between the coastal Euxine-Colchic forests and the drier, continental climate forests of central and eastern Anatolia.
In any given year, the duration of each season is determined largely by the positions of two great air masses — a maritime mass over the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest and a much drier continental mass.
The persistence of this rainforest is believed to be a product of a fortuitous continental drift ; after the breakup of its parent supercontinent a portion drifted toward the pole to become Antarctica, disturbing ocean currents and becoming quite chilly, while other portions were moved to hotter and drier locations.
Lying in the transition zone between North America's humid subtropical climate ( Köppen Cfa ) and humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfa ), Leavenworth experiences hot, humid summers and cold, drier winters.
Newport experiences a dry-summer continental climate ( Köppen Dsb ) with cold, moist winters and warm, drier summers.
Burlington ’ s climate is humid continental ( Köppen climate classification Dfa ) with warm, humid summers and cold, somewhat drier winters.
The two subspecies differ in colour intensity following Gloger's rule, with S. r. rubicola paler and with larger white patches in the drier European continental and mediterranean climates, and S. r. hibernans darker brown with less white in the humid Atlantic oceanic climate.
Vladikavkaz experiences a humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfb ) with warm, wet summers and cold, drier winters ( though very mild for Russia ).
Compared to the climate of Western Oregon, the climate of Eastern Oregon is a drier continental climate, with much greater seasonal variations in temperature.
The hotter, drier continental air mixes with the cooler, wetter air of the maritime cyclone, and the counter-clockwise circulation of the low propels the mixed air across the southern coasts of Europe.
Those that develop over land ( continental ) are drier and hotter than those that develop over oceans ( maritime ), and travel northward on the western periphery of the subtropical ridge.
There is considerable variation, however, between the rain-drenched and heavily glaciated east coast and the drier and more continental interior valley.
Rolleston is very exposed on the Canterbury Plains and is therefore slightly drier, with a more continental climate than nearby Christchurch.
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Soil samples show fine wind-blown sand, no trace of earthworm activity, reduced rainfall and indications of a drier and windier climate.
The climate is marine tropical, with two seasons: hot and humid from November to April, the result of the northeastern monsoon, and a cooler, drier season the rest of the year.
When part of a forest is removed, the trees no longer evaporate away this water, resulting in a much drier climate.
The change was abrupt, specifically, at this time climate became cooler and drier, conditions that are not favourable to the growth of rainforests and much of the biodiversity within them.
Eastern Washington has a much drier climate than Western Washington, and some Seattle-area residents have moved to the city and commute over Snoqualmie Pass on Interstate 90 to jobs located in the Puget Sound region.
The central highlands are both drier and cooler while the west is drier still, and a semi-arid climate prevails in the southwest and southern interior of the island.
Reptiles underwent a major evolutionary radiation, in response to the drier climate that followed the rainforest collapse.
Reptiles grew to dominance among vertebrates, because their special adaptations enabled them to flourish in the drier climate.
As you go inland, away from the coast and on to the yunga valleys the climate is drier and warmer during all seasons: around warmer in any given month.
The southern coast composed of Ica, Arequipa, Moquegua and Tacna regions have a drier and warmer climate during the day-time for all months except for winters.
There are regions famous for their sand dunes and impressive deserts since the climate is drier and hotter.
These grasslands also began to replace many forests because they could survive better in the drier climate typical in many regions of the world during this period.
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.
Bill Roe became the show's new director of photography, and episodes generally had a drier, brighter look due to the sunshine and climate of California, as compared with the rain, fog and temperate forests of Vancouver.
The climate in equatorial east Africa has alternated between drier than today, and relatively wet.
The drier climate took place during the Medieval Warm Period (~ AD 1000 – 1270 ).
Population density in the southern-most Bahamas remained lower, probably due to the drier climate there ( less than 800 mm of rain a year on Great Inagua Island and the Turks and Caicos Islands and only slightly higher on Acklins and Crooked Islands and Mayaguana ).
The climate is influenced by the mountainous and hilly relief of the region: cold in the area of Monte Pollino, temperate with a very limited temperature range in the area of Aspromonte, while the Sila and Serre massifs ensure greater humidity on the Tyrrhenian coast and a drier climate on the Ionian coast.
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