[quote=@Vilageidiotx]
Wait, aren't we pretty far north though? I know I changed a few things when I read that the Northern Deserts are sub-artic.

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I'd place us roughly around the 30 degree mark. There are going to be cool seasons, but they're not going to be freezing.

What effects the north would be - in my book - the long expanse of basically nothing up to those mountains. There'd be the season effect of the world's tilt to and from the sun, but seasonal warm moist air probably would not factor as heavily there as it would in the south or sometimes in the mountains. And with a minimal lack of mountains - save for dunish regions/highlands - there's a lot of unblocked landmass for colder arctic air to span further south earlier in the year and probably last longer. It's not to say all of it is and will be comparable to Siberia. But its position and relative nature throughout it and beyond it would make it like the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taklamakan_Desert#Climate]The Taklamakan Desert[/url] in my book.

But the cold rain-shadowed desert would mostly be on the west side I imagine. There's a break in the mountains there that I feel would and should factor into things be introducing more season warm wind to mingle with the colder air making a section of there to be more temperate. It's probably one of the more diverse areas lumped together because it's geographically the same, but environmentally different. So you have cold-ass desert on one side, then it eases into sort starts turning into something more like this the more east you get...

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