Talk:Subarctic climate
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Some subarctic animals include birds, lynx, reindeer, weasels and wolves.
I removed this "Agriculture is almost nonexistent, and confined to vegetables that can grow very quickly." because it is completely untrue. To give an example, 90% of Finland is within the sub-arctic climate area and I would not call its agriculture non-existent.--HJV 17:47, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Large differences within the subarctic climate
The article seems to focus mainly on the type of subarctic climate found in Siberia and northern part of Canada - the one with extremely cold winters. There are significant areas with a subarctic climate with "only" 5 months below freezing, and where there is no permafrost. For instance, southern Alaska including Anchorage have no permafrost, the same goes for cities like Luleå, Oulu, Tromsø. Snow cover also insulates the ground against the cold, hence drier areas are more prone to soil freezing. What about cities with a summer (24-hr mean at least 10 centigrades) lasting more than 3 months, but less than 4 months, say 105 days? Provided coldest winter month is below -3 centigrades, is this a humid continental Dfb climate or Dfc subarctic climate? The frost free periode should here be something like 110 - 120 days or more. Orcaborealis 20:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Vegetation is sparse...is this correct, considering that the boreal forests are the largest in the world? Much fewer species, yes, but still....Orcaborealis 22:01, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
The Koppen climate classification defines a subarctic climate as having coldest month mean temperature below -3 centigrade and between one and three months over 10 centigrade. I found that a few towns in Newfoundland Island fit into this classification when I checked the Weatherbase.com and Worldclimate.com websites. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.42.4.5 (talk)
And here is a link about the taiga and subarctic climate, thorough, divides the taiga (boreal forests) into subzones, and stating up to 100 frost free days.Orcaborealis 22:46, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Another link about farming (forage) in Alaska Orcaborealis 20:16, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
