Weather: In Victoria it is generally dry and warm in summer and wet and cool in winter. The northern and north western plains are close to the central Australian desert. This region is hotter and drier than the rest of the state. The mountains in the northeast are the coldest and wettest part of the state. Snow falls in this mountainous area every winter, but it is rare for other parts of the state to receive snow. Temperatures frequently fall below the freezing point in the mountains. Rainfall ranges from an annual average of 31 centimetres in the northwest to 89 centimetres in the southeast. Annual rainfalls of centimetres have been recorded in the north-eastern part of Victoria. Geographical Features With an area of 227,416 square kilometres, Victoria is the smallest of Australian main land states. Victoria’s largest width from east to west is 789 kilometres, and it’s greatest distance from north to south is 467 kilometres. Victoria has a coast line of 1,677 kilometres in length. The Murray River, which travels 2,589 kilometres from the Australian Alps to South Australia, forms most of Victoria’s northern boundary. Victoria is divided into four basic land regions. They are (1) the Coastal Belt, (2) the Mountain Region, (3) the Murray Basin Slopes and (4) the Lower Murray Basin Region. Agriculture Less than 5 percent of Victoria's workers are farmers. The far northwest of Victoria has rich and healthy fruit-growing areas along the Murray River. Farmers grow grain and hay in north western and western Victoria. The main cereal grains are barley, oats and wheat. Broccoli, celery, mushrooms, potatoes, and other vegetables are grown in the Melbourne area. Much of Victoria's farmland is used for sheep grazing. These farms are mai... ... middle of paper ... ...ked about how great the transportation is in Tokyo and throughout Honshu, you can get anywhere in Toyo via the subway train lines. Melbourne’s transportation is nowhere as god as Honshu’s with transportation almost always late (I know this because I catch as Bus and a Tram every day). My family is into skiing and have been skiing in Honshu twice And Hokkaido (the island above Honshu) once. The amount of snow Honshu receives is amazing, making Honshu a much better place to ski than Victoria. The amount of people in Tokyo is millions higher than Melbourne making Tokyo very crowded. In the end the transportation and skiing is much better than Victoria. But the living in Victoria and the population is better. Finally in conclusion I prefer Victoria over Honshu because it is not as crowed and I like our lifestyle. Like everybody says you can’t beat home.
Why Australia? What is Australia anyway1? The continent itself is clear enough, burned into my mind on long hot afternoons in the Third Grade when I learned to sketch in its irregular coastline: the half-circle of the Great Australian Bight, the little booted foot of Eyre's Peninsula. Spencer's Gulf down to Port Philip … … I know the outline; I know the names (learned painfully for homework) of several
(See Appendix B) Trois-Rivieres has a climate that is very similar to elsewhere in Canada, which is characterized by fluctuating temperatures month-to-month. In particular, Trois-Rivieres’s climate is continental, but it is humid due to its close proximity to a river. (See appendix). The summers are warm with temperatures that rise to 25°C. Autumn tends to be quite cool, but it is not uncommon to have days that are unreasonably hot or cold. Winter can be short and frigid ranging from -7.3°C to -17.6°C. The precipitation annually is quite low, but in May to October, it is quite heavy (See appendix A). The Two major rivers are close to Trois-Rivieres and they there are called the St. Lawrence River and Saint-Maurice River.
Water Resources Group, D. o. E. a. N. R., 2013. fact sheet 1. Whats What About Salinity and the River Murray, pp. 1-4.
Climate and weather are similar, describing how the atmosphere behaves, the difference being the timescale (Conway, 2010). Weather is a short-term scale of temperature and precipitation, usually considering weeks or less (ibid). Climate, however, is a long term description of months or longer, describing different seasons and trends of temperature and precipitation. Climate of Vancouver is typically mild during the spring and summer and damp during the autumn and winter, and unlike other mountainous areas of British Columbia, it is not excessively cold or snowy (“Hello BC”, n.d.).
Victoria has a temperate climate. Plenty of precipitation and have long mild winters and warm summers. Atlantic maritime is filled with both coniferous and deciduous
Prince Rupert and Prince George are separated by the Coastal Mountains, Prince Rupert is on the windward side while Prince George is on the leeward side. This would cause heavy precipitation in Prince Rupert while Prince George gets limited precipitation because it is covered in a rain shadow due to the dry winds coming over the mountain. For instance, Prince Rupert’s total precipitation is 2414 mm however Prince George’s total precipitation is 621 mm, making Prince Rupert maritime and Prince George continental. Finally, relief precipitation is a major factor to the two diverse climates of Prince George and Prince
IIPHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Texas is the second largest state in the nation, after Alaska, and has an area of 692,244 sq km (267,277 sq mi), including 12,844 sq km (4959 sq mi) of inland water and 1046 sq km (404 sq mi) of coastal water over which it has jurisdiction. Extending for about 1240 km (about 770 mi) from east to west and for about 1290 km (about 800 mi) from north to south, the state comprises about 7 percent of the land area of the United States. The mean elevation is about 500 m (1700 ft).
Average January temperature: -32.1 degrees Celsius. Average July temperature: +4.1 degrees Celsius. Temperature range: 36.2 degrees Celsius. Average annual temperature: -17 degrees Celsius. Lowest temperature recorded: -52.5 degrees Celsius.
The Negev desert is characterized by its lengthy, waterless summer with rain events occurring during the colder months of the year. Hendrik Bruins adds in his article, “Ancient Desert Agriculture in the Negev and Climate-Zone Boundary Changes During Average, Wet and Drought Years”, that:
For many years Australia has been an isolated land, away in the bottom corner of the world, surrounded by thousands of kilometres of ocean at some points. This isolation has developed entire unique ecosystems across Australia, ones that are full of unique native animals and plants.
A desert is a region so arid due to little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all. There are many different types of deserts including Trade wind deserts, Midlatitude deserts, Rain shadow deserts, and many more. The largest trade wind desert is the Sahara desert that is located in North Africa. Dry winds use cloud cover to allow more sunlight to heat the land. The Sahara desert has reached temperatures of 122 degrees Fahrenheit. The Mid Latitude deserts have many interior drainage basins far from oceans and have a wide range of annual temperatures. These deserts are more common in North America.
Temperatures during the summer average 20° C to 24° C and 2° C to 4° C during the winter. The Humidity is generally low with about 500 to 800 millimeters of rainfall per year. Up at the higher elevations the precipitation can be up to twice as heavy as compaired to the eastern plains. The climate in western Georgia is subtropical up to about 650 meters of elevation. (Butler)
Australia is home to the great barrier reef which is the world's largest coral reef system, and home to the kangaroo. Australia is the driest continent in the world. The outback is the part of Australia that few live in because it’s a vast desert (“Australia”). The great dividing range is a long chain of mountains that runs along the Pacific Coast of Australia (“Australia”). Australia is the driest inhabitable country in the world (“Australia”). The great barrier reef of Australia is the largest in the world (“Australia”). Australia is already a dry country and if the temperature rises anymore due to climate change than Australia could suffer from more severe forest fires and be doomed.
Rain rarely falls in these deserts and when it does the precipitation to evaporation ratio is very low. The temperature throughout the day varies greatly. At night the temperature is very cool, but during the day the temperatures soar. The dry heat and low humidity causes a very high rate of precipitation. Wind is strong
in), but high humidity results in fog and dew. In the north deeep canyons have