Rainforest west Canada

The oceanic climate areas stretch from the Western shores of Europe, Portugal to Norway, and on the Western littoral of America from San Francisco to -British Colombia in Canada. In the southern hemisphere, areas includes Chile, New Zealand and Tasmania (Australia).�

Temperatures

The annual average temperature of these areas lies between 10�C and 13�C.

Precipitations

Precipitations appear much more abundant than they are in reality: their annual total hardly exceeds the meter, but they are distributed over all the year, with a maximum during the cold season related to the passage of depressions.

One of the major feature of the oceanic areas is a certain indifference regarding to latitude. The climatic bands are laid out in the north and the south. In fact, from Portugal to Norway and on the Atlantic shores, there is a low temperature variation. This climate changes as soon as you go deeper in the continents : rain decreases and thermal variations increase. The winters become colder and the summer hotter. These areas of semi-continental climate form the transition with the continental climate areas climates.

Home