ocr: Russia has a cold continental climate, characterized by two widely divergent main seasons. Spring and autumn are very brief periods of transition between warm summers and freezing winters. The country 1S open to the intluences ofthe Arctic and Atlantic to the north and west. However, mountains to the south and east prevent any warming effects from the Indian and Pacitic Oceans from tltering across. Severe winters characterize most regions. Winter temperatures vary little from north to south, but fall sharply in eastern regions. The January temperature of-94/Frecordedat Verkhoyansk in Sib peria ...
