The foliage on the cape is by no means as flashy as that of cooler inland forests — more russet than scarlet, more gold than yellow — but it's glorious in its own way and there's an openness to the woods in fall that is missing in the thick green of summer.
The color difference was likely an adaptation that allows the darker melanic ladybugs to stay warm in the cooler inland climes, whereas a lighter color prevents the nonmelanic bugs from getting too hot on the coast.
Along the California coast, the cooler water sets up a surface marine layer that is much cooler than inland areas during the summer.
But during the long, southern summer, from November through April, a cold current flows up from the Antarctic, sending cooling breezes inland that ward off the heat.
For example, within the Bay of Plenty region in the North Island, there is a strong altitudinal gradient from coastal sites where SI can be greater than 35 m to cooler elevated inland sites where SI may only be 25 m (Palmer et al., 2010).
But when I arrived in the city of Malang, in the cool hills of inland East Java, I discovered something I never imagined existed.
Onshore breezes will tend to keep the North and South shores, and several miles inland, cooler as a result, he said.
The southern coast is generally cooler than the inland areas, except for the mountains, where in the highest elevations the average maximum temperature drops to less than 38 °F (3 °C) in winter.
There have been plans for nuclear plants inland, cooled by rivers, but concerns about the availability of water in drier years to come and the risk of contaminating it may cause these plans to be shelved.China's expansion into nuclear power is hardly a market-driven development, but it helps that the plants involved look comparatively cheap.
Sydney experiences cooler nights in the inland (Sydney west) zone, and cooler days in the coastal (Sydney east) zone.
