According to sources I have read, the country known as Switzerland can be found in the middle latitudes.
Switzerland
Switzerland
tropics! so it has several different kinds of climates.
Panama at about 9N is in the "tropics", which is the area between the Tropic of Cancer at 23 26N and the Tropic of Capricorn at 23 26S.
Occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth. Refer to the climate zone between 35 and 50 north and south latitudes.
Around 30 degrees latitude is the approximate area of transition from the tropics to the middle latitudes. The tropics are lergely dominated by the trade winds, which blow out of the east. The middle latitudes are dominated by the premailing westerlies, which blow out of the west. The dominant wind pattern of a given latitude largely dictates the direction of storm movement.
"High" latitudes. The equator has a latitude of zero. The area between the Tropic of Cancer (at 23.5 degrees north) and the Tropic of Capricorn (at 23.5 degrees south) are the "tropics" or low latitudes. The "polar regions" are above the Arctic Circle or below the Antarctic Circle, where the latitudes are higher than 66.5 degrees (north or south) are "high". The areas between the tropics and the arctic/antarctic are called "mid-latitudes or "temperate zones".
Switzerland
middle latitudes
Most temperate climates are located in the middle latitudes. The middle latitudes has four temperate climates such as humid continental, marine west coast, Mediterranean, and humid subtropical.
Another name for the middle latitudes is the temperate regions.
Weather systems are moved by the large scale wind currents of the Earth. These generall move west in the tropics, east in the middle latitudes, and west near the poles.