Re: What exactly is a mediterranean climate anyway?
- Subject: Re: What exactly is a mediterranean climate anyway?
- From: <d*@hawaii.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 0:36:11 +0000
Sounds like Kula, Maui.
Found we even have cork oak trees growing nearby. Had seen them all the time passing by almost daily. Then got to ask the person that owns the property and had my suspicions confirmed.
MTF
---- Otter Point <otterpt@shaw.ca> wrote:
> If Mediterranean climate is defined as climatic condition in which the
> summers are normally dry, warm to hot and sunny and winters are mild
> with the maximum rainfall taking place during this time of the year this
> does not say that temperatures are warm/hot enough to ripen dates.
>
> Is there a distinction between a 'hot' Mediterranean climate and a
> 'warm' Mediterranean climate?
>
> I live on the central east coast of Vancouver Island which has
> relatively mild weather with most precipitation in the winter and long,
> dry summers. It is known as a Mediterranean climate.
>
> Diane Pertson
> ____________
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Mace" <mikemace@att.net>
> To: "'Medit-Plants'" <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:03 PM
> Subject: RE: What exactly is a mediterranean climate anyway?
>
>
> >I just wanted to thank everybody for their replies and thoughts on the
> > definition of a Mediterranean climate. I think the examples we're
> > talking
> > about reinforce the idea that the definition of "mediterranean" is
> > very
> > flexible. As Pamela pointed out, central Spain has a very different
> > climate, but every official "mediterranean" climate map I've seen
> > includes
> > it. But if central Spain is mediterranean, it's hard to argue that
> > central
> > Oregon isn't.
> >
> > And then there are the date palms, which in California grow best in
> > areas
> > that are officially classified as (non-mediterranean) low desert.
> >
> > I'd like to see us eventually develop a standard classification of
> > various
> > mediterranean climates that would work around the world. That would
> > help us
> > quickly determine what plants are likely to have a chance in our own
> > climates.
> >
> > Mike
> > San Jose, CA
> >
>
