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It doesn't have to be positive. It's just a hypothetical on what it would be like.
It'd be terrible. The lower latitude would cause more arid/semi-arid zones and insanely hot summers for the interior southern part of the country. FL would still be moderated due to being surrounded by water still, but there'd be no cool season at all down here. Would just be terrible.
I don't see why California would be drier, I mean wouldn't it get more precipitation maybe due to warmer waters??
No because there would still be a cold water current coming down from the north which would suppress precip. I think only the Southern part of California would get precip in the summer because of the ITCZ moving north from the equator to around the tropic of cancer during high sun much like you have in Mexico in reality. Puerto Vallarta is a good example of this.
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This isn't precise, but this is a good general rule.
0 deg to 5 N/S -- Tropical Rainforest (or Subtropical Winter Dry Savanna at higher altitudes)
5 deg to 15 deg N/S (25 deg N/S on east side of continent) -- Tropical Savanna (tropical temps, with dry winters)
15 deg to 30 deg, west side and interior -- Hot Desert
30 deg to 40 deg, west side, coastal -- Mediterranean (Subtropical dry summer)
25 deg to 40 deg east side or half of continent -- Humid Subtropical (even distributed precipitation)
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With this, the deserts would start at about San Diego and end just north of Portland, possibly extending to the crest of the Rockies. On the east, everything south of a Casper WY-Omaha-Chicago-NYC line would be tropical savanna. Essentially, this US would closely resemble real world tropical South America.
This isn't precise, but this is a good general rule.
0 deg to 5 N/S -- Tropical Rainforest (or Subtropical Winter Dry Savanna at higher altitudes)
5 deg to 15 deg N/S (25 deg N/S on east side of continent) -- Tropical Savanna (tropical temps, with dry winters)
15 deg to 30 deg, west side and interior -- Hot Desert
30 deg to 40 deg, west side, coastal -- Mediterranean (Subtropical dry summer)
25 deg to 40 deg east side or half of continent -- Humid Subtropical (even distributed precipitation)
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With this, the deserts would start at about San Diego and end just north of Portland, possibly extending to the crest of the Rockies. On the east, everything south of a Casper WY-Omaha-Chicago-NYC line would be tropical savanna. Essentially, this US would closely resemble real world tropical South America.
More than 40 on west coast will be Oceanic, cloudy, and rainy
This isn't precise, but this is a good general rule.
0 deg to 5 N/S -- Tropical Rainforest (or Subtropical Winter Dry Savanna at higher altitudes)
5 deg to 15 deg N/S (25 deg N/S on east side of continent) -- Tropical Savanna (tropical temps, with dry winters)
15 deg to 30 deg, west side and interior -- Hot Desert
30 deg to 40 deg, west side, coastal -- Mediterranean (Subtropical dry summer)
25 deg to 40 deg east side or half of continent -- Humid Subtropical (even distributed precipitation)
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With this, the deserts would start at about San Diego and end just north of Portland, possibly extending to the crest of the Rockies. On the east, everything south of a Casper WY-Omaha-Chicago-NYC line would be tropical savanna. Essentially, this US would closely resemble real world tropical South America.
BTW, don't oceans normally have "fresher" air than seas?
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