• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Thank you! Clearly the map maker has never been to Las Vegas and Los Angeles in the summer. VASTLY different. There’s a reason LA is the second biggest city in America and the weather is a huge part of it. Surfing weather vs Death Valley lite.

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      6 months ago

      And I doubt that they have been to Spain. Central Spain is -5º in the winter to 40º+ in the summer, and dry AF. Central Spain is a plateau, elevation 700m, so it has no buffering from the coast. I very much doubt you’d have that in a coastal region.

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        Los Angeles is not a desert. Los Angeles has an enormous agriculture industry surrounding the area - farms don’t work well in a desert. LA is a type of savanna, specifically an oak savanna, compared to the high, dry desert of southern Nevada. It isn’t a minor climate shift - they are two radically different environments. The only thing that they share in common is getting hot in the summer.