North America

The North American climate is vast and varied.  It consists of nearly every fascinating type of weather, from the icy regions of the top, the foggy coastal lands down the west coast, through the dry desert, all the way down to the end of the continent.  North America, similar to Europe, offers a wide variety of climates that spans across three countries.

The temperatures in North America have been known to range between well past below zero with frozen ice caps, all the way to the scorching hot heat of 125 degrees in the high desert.  In between the two extremes area sunny beaches, some with fog that lasts months and other areas where it is called a marine layer that burns off by noon.  Some areas in Middle America are famous for consistent extreme summer and winter weather patterns, such as dust storms, tornados, and hurricanes, while others enjoy the dry air, extreme heat, and extreme freezing temperatures.  Cities known to have regular wind and dust storms, earned special names for themselves, like the Windy City in Chicago where the weather is calculated differently because of the deadly combinations of snow, ice, and wind and Death Valley because of its extreme dry desert heat.  Special preparations must be made to visit or live in these regions, but they are habitable and considered famous tourist sites across North America's beautiful landscape.