Which places/cities do you think have vegetation many perceive as mismatch with what the climate's like (freezing, USA)
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Looking at street views of Evansville, IN it looks like a pretty "southern" city to me. Not too different from Nashville or Bowling Green. Not too surprising though.
It always has impressed me how Missouri's vegetation looks very subtropical during summer time. It's perhaps the northermost it happens across the US.
Also it's very surprassing that subtropical Pampas grass plains looks alot like sites like Illinois, wich is a continental zone.
Crazy to think that the first place gets those brutal winters. It's hard to my head to link that with a landscape wich feels so familiar to mild winters.
There is no grass. No greenery. Nothing. Just these grey-green-blue sort of trees that look like they are desperately starved for any kind of moisture. The ground is brown, bare, and almost sandy. The landscape looks almost dead - quite depressing, actually.
It still looks dry, as a Mediterranean climate should, but it is green. It looks alive and vibrant. No bare ground, unlike the other link. Plants seem to grow naturally instead of the odd spacing of trees I have noticed in Australian forests. It looks much brighter and more like a living, moving place instead of statues of what was once there.
(Not intended to be an insult to Australia. Your country is lovely, it just has a miserable failure of a climate. )
It always has impressed me how Missouri's vegetation looks very subtropical during summer time. It's perhaps the northermost it happens across the US.
Also it's very surprassing that subtropical Pampas grass plains looks alot like sites like Illinois, wich is a continental zone.
Crazy to think that the first place gets those brutal winters. It's hard to my head to link that with a landscape wich feels so familiar to mild winters.
Missouri is a warmer climate than most people think. It definitely has cold winters for the most part (except the southern part of the state) but warm weather definitely wins for at least six months of the year.
It always has impressed me how Missouri's vegetation looks very subtropical during summer time. It's perhaps the northermost it happens across the US.
Also it's very surprassing that subtropical Pampas grass plains looks alot like sites like Illinois, wich is a continental zone.
Crazy to think that the first place gets those brutal winters. It's hard to my head to link that with a landscape wich feels so familiar to mild winters.
Pampas grass is a very commonly used plant here. Unsurprisingly Missouri is also the furthest north humid subtropical climates exist. Koppen may not have been foolish then to group Missouri with subtropical climates...
Looking at street views of Evansville, IN it looks like a pretty "southern" city to me. Not too different from Nashville or Bowling Green. Not too surprising though.
Then it must depend more on summer, because Evansville's winters are almost identical to here.
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