Climate

Hawaii Island Climate Zones

Sixty miles (97 km) separates Hilo’s 130 inches (3,302 mm) of annual rain from the Kohala coast’s under 10 inches (254 mm). Both are on the same island. The Big Island of Hawaii has 10 of the world’s 14 Köppen climate zones in 4,028 square miles (10,430 km²), from tropical rainforest to periglacial desert at the summit of Mauna Kea.

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Four British Migrations That Shaped America

Massachusetts doesn’t feel like Virginia for a reason. Between 1620 and 1770, four British regions sent settlers with completely different worldviews. East Anglian Puritans built communal New England. North Midlands Quakers created tolerant Pennsylvania. Southern English gentry ran hierarchical Virginia. Scottish-English borderers settled independent Appalachia. The map shows where they came from and where they went. American regions still reflect those origins.

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