Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The climate of a small, specific place within an area as contrasted with the climate of the entire area.
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- noun A small,
local region having aunique pattern ofweather or weather effects that differ from the local climate.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Britain's literary microclimate is tropical in its fever and Elizabethan in its profusion.
Archive 2006-01-01 Grace Lee 2006
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Britain's literary microclimate is tropical in its fever and Elizabethan in its profusion.
E-read all about it (The Observer) Grace Lee 2006
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A microclimate is the climate of a small area that is different from the area around it.
Geri Miller: Harvest-to-Glass: Planning and Planting Your Own Cocktail Garden Geri Miller 2010
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A microclimate is the climate of a small area that is different from the area around it.
Geri Miller: Harvest-to-Glass: Planning and Planting Your Own Cocktail Garden Geri Miller 2010
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A microclimate is the climate of a small area that is different from the area around it.
Geri Miller: Harvest-to-Glass: Planning and Planting Your Own Cocktail Garden Geri Miller 2010
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A microclimate is the climate of a small area that is different from the area around it.
Geri Miller: Harvest-to-Glass: Planning and Planting Your Own Cocktail Garden Geri Miller 2010
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A microclimate is the climate of a small area that is different from the area around it.
Geri Miller: Harvest-to-Glass: Planning and Planting Your Own Cocktail Garden Geri Miller 2010
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Veteran champions of riesling such as Hugh Johnson, author of The World Atlas of Wine, and Jancis Robinson, who have helped to give the white wine an international standing, are calling on German politicians to halt construction at the site along the Mosel river which they say could ruin the region's unique microclimate, which is highly sensitive to change.
The Guardian World News Kate Connolly 2010
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A microclimate is a weather pattern that's localized in a small area and different in some significant way from the weather of nearby areas.
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Even with heavy restrictions, New York's wine industry has grown from 21 wineries in 1975 to 261 this year, and supporters of changing the laws say it could grow much more, given the Finger Lakes region's fabled microclimate, which is ideal for growing cool-climate grapes.
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