Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Location and Climate

  Did you know that the Taiga Shield is broken by the Hudson Bay and continues to the Atlantic Ocean? It is south of the Southern Arctic. The ecozone stretches eastward from the Taiga Plains. It has short summers and long winters, nights that last up to twenty hours. The annual temperature is below freezing. The temperature during summers, only go up as high as 18 degree Celsius, and the annual precipitation of western Taiga Shield is 200 mm and eastern Taiga Shield has an annual precipitation of 1000 mm. Overall the Taiga Shield has a very low precipitation. This ecozone has a subarctic continental climate and the precipitation is very low.
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