CHAPTER TEN: The Subtropical Enviornment

The Southern Coastland takes up the bottom eastern half of the country. The climate is rather humid but subtropical and thats one of the reasons the Southern Coastland attracts tourists and new residents. The Southern Coastlands picks up from the mouth of the Rio Grande and ranging through Florida's peninsula to coastal North Carolina.

Compared to the Southern Coastland, San Francisco climate is characteristic of California’s Mediterranean Climate with mild, wet winters and dry summers. Since it is surrounded on three sides by water, San Francisco's climate is strongly influenced by the cool currents of the Pacific Ocean which tends to moderate temperature swings and produce a remarkably mild climate with little seasonal temperature variation.