Life in Jamestown. Find out what it took to be a settler in the early-American colony of Jamestown. Introduction. On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River.
Winters in Shanghai are about as cold as winters in Seattle (but quite a bit less rainy). In southern China, it's a bit hard to say. In the mountains of southwestern China, winters are mild to cool, but now very cloudy and almost always without any snow, while in lower southeastern China, winters are warm and humid, like in Florida. December 21, 2010
The Ladakh region, lying in the Great Himalayas in India, also has a cold desert climate. This is also found in Europe, primarily in the Province of Almeria, Province of Alicante and Province of Murcia in Spain.