The Climate
The world of Riiga has biomes and climates quite similar to those on earth. Below is a map, a key to the climates, and a brief description of each one along with example pictures. Most of it is quite rough, and some places are mostly guessed as humans have scarcely visited it.
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Polar Polar regions are very cold. They're characterised by heavy winds, low rainfall and snowfall, no vegetation, and deep frozen soil. |
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Mountainous At lower levels, mountains support vegetation, but above cloud level, temperature drops and rainfull increases. |
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Tundra These cold, treeless deserts support very few plants larger than shrubs, because of the cold and lack of nutrients. |
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Coniferous In coniferous areas, summers are short and winters are long, and there are usually thick forests of conifer trees. |
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Temperate Temperate climates have distinct warm and cool seasons, and it has lots of rainfall and large trees. Despite this, winters are still fierce. |
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Open Forest An open forest is on the warm side. Summers are hot and dry, and winters are mild. It covers many coastal regions. |
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Grassland Grasslands are generally dry environments which ares screened from moist sea breezes by mountains, and thus do not sustain many trees well. |
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Desert Very low rainfall and very high surface temperatures are distinct features of deserts. Only water-storing plants survive here. |
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Subtropical Hot weather and heavy rainfall seasons describe subtropical environments well. Though they can be forested, there are also subtropical grasslands. |
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Tropical Tropical environments get even more rainfall and are even hotter than subtropical areas. Vegetation is lush and moist and dense rainforests usually grow here. |
