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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 3021356" data-attributes="member: 70">Well, that's the catch.  I'm not looking for plains.  I had pictured the Soze as a sort of temperate - cold Amazonian Basin, with the Deep Mountains in the east catching most of the rain that didn't fall and funnelling it back to the Soze. Most of the area would be forest.I'm not a science student, so some of this is a bit fuzzy.  But it seems like topography, particularly mountains, have more of an effect than continental vs coastal, particularly over relatively short distances like Gerin.  The Soze basin is relatively small - indeed, the continent of Gerin could almost fit in the eastern US.  There's clearly a rainshadow effect from the Rockies, but it abates with distance - Wisconsin and Mi is pretty close to the center of the North American continent, and forested (even west of the Great Lakes).  My understanding was that almost everything east of the Mississippi is "naturally" forested, despite far greater distances from a coast than are present in Gerin.  Rain from the Gulf of Mexico, travelling inland west of the Appalachians, can reach (and rain) here in New England.I'm really not trying to argue, I'm trying to understand.  Why semiarid/steppe, and not continental (cool summer)?  What forces the transition from marine to semiarid?  Why BSk and not Dfb or even Cfb?Thanks for your patience,Nell.</blockquote>