cold climate
Where winters dominate
A cold climate is a regional weather pattern characterized by low temperatures, typically with long winters and short summers.
The term appears in discussions of geography, agriculture, and adaptation: crops suited to cold climates, animals that thrive in cold climates.
Cold climate also describes wine-growing regions where cooler temperatures produce distinctive grape varieties.
- subarcticZone south of Arctic
- snowFrozen crystalline precipitation
- frostThin ice coating
- SiberiaRussia's eastern expanse
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
boreal forest · glacier · polar vortex · rime · below zero · wind chill · blizzard · igloo · dog sled · polar night · ice age · cryosphere · whiteout · ice cap · permafrost layer · Russia · northern lights · Antarctic
- CordilleraCordillera Central, rice terraces, flower festival, pine trees, indigenous peoples
- FairbanksFairbanks, North Pole, aurora borealis, northern lights, ice fog
- climatestropical, subtropical, temperate forest, equatorial, continental
- polar climateArctic, Antarctic, North Pole, South Pole, polar regions
- Subarctictaiga, boreal forest, subarctic, Arctic Circle, permafrost
- taigaboreal forest, taiga, spruce, coniferous forest, pine
cold climatehot climate
Warm regional weather pattern
warm climate · tropical climate · desert climate · Mediterranean climate · temperate climate