Climate

__1. Pompeii and Herculaneum: Climate__
 * **Description of Climate** || **Evidence to prove (3 items)** ||
 * * Experienced hot, dry summers between May - September
 * Mild, moist winters between October - April[[image:sunny_italy_campania_style.jpg width="192" height="136"]]
 * Campanias soil is fertile because of the nutrients provided by the volcanic minerals present around Mt Vesuvius.
 * Campanias coastal area - "the finest, not only in Italy but the entire world. Nowhere is the climate gentler. Spring comes with its flowers twice a year there. Nowhere is the soil richer."
 * "It's eternal freshness and so repletewith health and vitality, the sereneness of the weather so enchanting, the fields so fertile, the hill sides so sunny" || *


 * Historians have discovered this from the soil from the time.
 * Florus Brief History 1.11. 3-6
 * Pliny the Elder Natural History Book 3 Ch 6 ||