Americas Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Climate === [[File:Americas Köppen Map.png|upright=1.3|thumb|Climate zones of the Americas in the [[Köppen climate classification]] system]] The climate of the Americas varies significantly from region to region. [[Tropical rainforest climate]] occurs in the latitudes of the [[Amazon rainforest|Amazon]], American [[cloud forest]]s, southeastern Florida and [[Darién Gap]]. In the [[Rocky Mountains]] and [[Andes]], dry and continental climates are observed. Often the higher altitudes of these mountains are snow-capped. Southeastern North America is well known for its occurrence of [[tornadoes]] and [[hurricanes]], of which the vast majority of tornadoes occur in the United States' [[Tornado Alley]],<ref name="Science News 1">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20020511/bob9.asp|title=Tornado Alley, USA|last=Perkins|first=Sid|date=May 11, 2002|magazine=[[Science News]]|pages=296–298|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825011156/http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20020511/bob9.asp|archive-date=August 25, 2006|access-date=May 29, 2011}}</ref> as well as in the southerly [[Dixie Alley]] in the North American late-winter and early spring seasons. Often parts of the Caribbean are exposed to the violent effects of hurricanes. These weather systems are formed by the collision of dry, cool air from Canada and wet, warm air from the Atlantic. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page