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I was just a bit vaguely curious as to which regions of the world share similar weather and vegetation to the Midwestern U.S., so I’m sorry if this question is a bit naive.
Manchuria also has a strong resemblance to the midwest climate wise, more so than these other regions...
The australian outback and the veld/pampas are far too warm to be comparable to the midwest imo.... maybe Texas?
Eastern Europe is probably a bit oceanic by midwestern standards, and also gloomy... The baltics have rather cool summers by midwestern standards, and places with those summer averages (far NE MN, UP of MI) have much harsher winters... the great lakes of the region might share some similarity with the Baltic, but the freshwater/saltwater difference is important imo...
The Russian forest steppe can be close to the Dakotas... Volgograd looks like Sioux Falls climatically.... but is a poorer fit for places further east in the region...
I personally think Manchuria and north korea matches best climatewise (especially to the Western Midwest states like MN) and for the eastern/snowbelt areas (like Cleveland), Hokkaido could work... but Japan has far more mountains than the midwest...
Parts of the Caucasus resemble the lower Midwest. The most similar non-Midwest climate to my own Kansas City that I have ever been able to find is Yerevan.
Parts of the Caucasus resemble the lower Midwest. The most similar non-Midwest climate to my own Kansas City that I have ever been able to find is Yerevan.
What you need is the Koppen Climate map. Google it (Koppen has an umlaut but this software doesn't seem to have one). Koppen classifies world climates into categories based on temperature, seasonal changes, rainfall, and several other things, enabling one to find the closest matches to any given climate world wide. It is the climatological standard. Here is one such map
As you can readily see, the upper Midwest most resembles parts of southwest Russia, while the lower Midwest resembles parts of western Europe and New Zealand.
Either the area north of the Caucasus, East Asia, Central Asia, or Eastern Europe.
I may have to go with East Asia here because the other options don't have anything like the lower Midwest with hot and humid summers. If you think about the geography of North America and Eurasia, East Asia resembles the lowland areas that get more rain. The Caucasus, Central Asia, and some parts of Eastern Europe are like the mountainous inland west.
What you need is the Koppen Climate map. Google it (Koppen has an umlaut but this software doesn't seem to have one). Koppen classifies world climates into categories based on temperature, seasonal changes, rainfall, and several other things, enabling one to find the closest matches to any given climate world wide. It is the climatological standard. Here is one such map
As you can readily see, the upper Midwest most resembles parts of southwest Russia, while the lower Midwest resembles parts of western Europe and New Zealand.
Be careful when glancing at the climate maps. Western Europe and NZ are oceanic Cfb climates and have considerably colder summers than the lower midwest, which might be the northern part of the Cfa region you are glancing at.
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