Understanding Different Mountain Climates: What to Wear and Their Characteristics, Study notes of Climatology

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Mountain Climates

What would you wear?

The Andes (Peru) The Rockies The Himalayas Snowdonia The Lake District The Austrian Alps

Climate is a way of describing the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of time (usually 30 years or more).

How would you describe the British climate?

Climates can change from place to place depending on:

• The time of the year (summer or winter)
  • How far from the equator a place is
• The altitude (coasts and mountains)
• Human activity over a very long time.

Tropical Climate Places in the tropics near the equator have tropical climates. Tropical wet climate: rainforest in Sri Lanka They have high temperatures, high humidity and heavy rainfall.

Dry Climate Dry climates can be hot or cold and they have very little rain. Warm and dry climate: grassland in the Rift Valley in Africa

Temperate Climate

Dyfi Forest, mid-Wales

Temperate areas of the world lie between the tropics and the polar

circles. The weather is usually mild, with rain all year round and can

be very unpredictable both in summer and winter.