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So in this scenario, the atlantic would be filled with land, creating a massive landmass from north america across to Europe and northern Africa from 25N to 60N.
With this in mind, how do you think the climates would change? I personally think that it would mean warmer summers and colder winters.. an extreme continental climate in the centre of the new land mass for sure!
How do you think this would affect the cities in:
- Western Europe
- Eastern USA
- The new landmass created in the Atlantic
Europe: Hot, sunny and slightly wet summers throughout the region. Winters would be dry, very cold and sunny large portions of the region would be subarctic.
Higher altitude areas will be icecap and its a guess; the windward areas of the Baltic sea, Mediterranean sea and other bodies of water could see significant lake effect before and after the peak of winter.
Bordeaux, France summers around 34c/15c with sporadic (but probably violent supercells) and cold winters -6c/-17c.
Atlantic landmass: Vast continental climate zone again hot summers and very cold winters. Precipitation will be sporadic.
Eastern North America: Hyper continental type climate, dry year round but with more evenly spread higher precipitation than Europe and the Atlantic landmass. NYC for example summers would be very hot (36c/20c) and winters very cold again (-7c/14c)
The whole of the new landmass from the rocky mountains all the way to East Asia would probably be a mixture of Taiga, steppe, desert and badland. The Atlantic coastal area (let's guess it around the latitude of Florida) will probably be green with temperate woodlands with a climate similar to Coastal Texas but more continental.
This new landmass will probably be to extreme and dry in places...
The new landmass would be uninhabited for the most part. Too dry, too hot, too cold, and not enough precipitation.
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