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🔆 Laurentian-type Climate
✅ Climate:
▪️Winter - cold and dry, with below freezing temperatures, snowfall is usual.
▪️Summer - warm Due to the influence of Seas, rainfall can be experienced throughout the year, but in Asian part the rainfall is mostly seen during summers.
✅ Vegetation: Predominant vegetation is cool temperate forest
✅ Location:
▪️North America : North-eastern region - eastern Canada, north-east U.S.A., and Newfoundland.
▪️Asia: Eastern coasts of Asia - eastern Siberia, North China, Manchuria, Korea and northern Japan.
✅Important Economic Activity:
▪️Lumbering
▪️Fishing - as the area near both American continent and Asia, is the meeting point of warm and cold ocean currents, it becomes an important fishing ground. Near Newfoundland - Mixing of warm Gulf Stream and cold Labrador currents takes place. Near Japan - Warm Kuroshio and Cold Oyashio Currents meet.
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