Showing posts with label Climate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climate. Show all posts

Monday, 26 September 2011

Climate Characteristics and Landform Regions

Climate -
Throughout the year, most of the areas receive more than 1000mm of precipitation, over 300cm of snow, and severe weather conditions occur occasionally during the summer with tornadoes and thunderstorms.

Landform regions -
Quebec has 2 landform regions; Canadian Shield and Hudson Bay Lowlands. Most of Quebec is Canadian Shield and on a small part of western Quebec is Hudson Bay Lowlands.

Climate Characteristics

In Alberta, the temperature in January can change rapidly, it can go from −8°C in South Alberta to −24 °C  in Northern Alberta. In July, it is around -24°C in Southern Alberta and around 16°C in Northern Alberta. The anuual rainfall ranges from 300mm (South Alberta) to 450mm (North Alberta)