<p>Elevation is often responsible for the biggest differences; you can have snow and glaciers on the top of mountains in warm climates. South America can show you how extreme the differences in precipitation can be: rain forest on one side of the Andes Mountains, world's driest (non-polar) desert on the other. So really it depends on how high and complete your mountain ring is.
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LHUZDAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA144&amp;lpg=PA144&amp;dq=plateau%20microclimate&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=QmEXUdFTNK&amp;sig=0YDHV2d4TTJDJe4IzWRj8aDMHXU&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwipgoufs7vWAhVEbSYKHcFWA-MQ6AEIVzAN#v=onepage&amp;q=plateau%20microclimate&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here</a> is a decent book on the subject. </p>

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<p>How much different in temperature and pressure can a microclimate be than the surrounding region?  In other words, if you had a dry region but then a valley within a ring of mountains that isolated the local environment could the valley have distinctly different humidity, temperature and pressure and how far much different could it get?  </p>

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How different can microclimates be than their surrounding areas?
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# How different can microclimates be than their surrounding areas?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-09-22)

How much different in temperature and pressure can a microclimate be than the surrounding region? In other words, if you had a dry region but then a valley within a ring of mountains that isolated the local environment could the valley have distinctly different humidity, temperature and pressure and how far much different could it get?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2017-09-23. Score: 2

Elevation is often responsible for the biggest differences; you can have snow and glaciers on the top of mountains in warm climates. South America can show you how extreme the differences in precipitation can be: rain forest on one side of the Andes Mountains, world's driest (non-polar) desert on the other. So really it depends on how high and complete your mountain ring is.
[Here](https://books.google.com/books?id=LHUZDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq=plateau%20microclimate&source=bl&ots=QmEXUdFTNK&sig=0YDHV2d4TTJDJe4IzWRj8aDMHXU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwipgoufs7vWAhVEbSYKHcFWA-MQ6AEIVzAN#v=onepage&q=plateau%20microclimate&f=false) is a decent book on the subject.


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