ABSTRACT
PALESTINE, though a small country, has a variety of climates ranging from sub-Alpine through temperate and Mediterranean to tropical. The mountains of northern Galilee have climatic features similar to those of parts of Switzerland, the deserts of the Negeb to those of parts of the Sahara; in the plain of Sharon and on the slopes of the Shephelah one might be in the Italian Riviera; the climate of the Judaean hills has been likened to that of central Germany; in the Jordan trench the summer heat is as unbearable as that of any place on earth, though mid-winter is as pleasant as an English summer.
