climatic
/klʌɪˈmatɪk
/adjective
Relating to climate: under certain climatic conditions, desert locusts increase in number...
- It was a portent of climatic things to come, which culminated in the worst floods in living memory in cities such as Prague and Dresden.
- Wayne attributes this unexpected birth so far south to climatic changes that are seeing warmer waters.
- As well as the threat of climatic change, several countries are interested in stepping up the commercial krill fishery.
Usage
See climactic (usage)
Derivatives
climatical
- Whether European honeybees were equally or better fit than Africanized honeybees in the ecological and climatical conditions of southern Texas may never be known.
- Scientists have shown over the last years that our planet is going through a climatical change.
- Such climatical conditions are conducive for the cultivation of mulberry trees, sericulture and fish farming.
climatically
- With a chilling blast blowing through the city, Saturday night's Winter Ball could not have been scheduled on a more climatically appropriate evening.
- The young Francoise, sent to continue her schooling in Holland, culturally and climatically a world apart from Java, was devastated.
- The present outbreak of fires, as those before them, coincided with climatically dry periods in central Sumatra.