Strategies for Climate Priorities: Winter Keep the heat in and the cold temperatures out during the summer Avoid building on cold northern slopes Build on the middle of slopes to avoid both the pools of cold air at the bottom and the high winds at the top of hills Use a compact design with a [...]

CLIMATE and ENERGY Climate The determining factor of figuring out a climate or its average weather is understanding the suns angles (latitude) tropic, temperate, and artic zones. Because the atmosphere is almost completely invisible to solar energy from the sun the main heating of the air occurs at the earth’s surface. A global north-south flow [...]