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     Location Taiga climates are found only in the Northern Hemisphere, usually between 50 and 70 degrees North latitude. This includes such places as Canada, Northern Europe, Alaska, and Asia. There are two types of taiga found in these regions, closed forests, and lichen woodlands. Lichen woodlands are more common in northern taiga.        C l i m a t e                        The climate of the Taiga is usually very cold, and has very long winters that last up to 6 months. Of those freezing winters, the Taiga doesn’t receive much snow. But when it does snow that layer stays there for several months and can be close to 7 feet thick! The average temperature in the winter is high 30F -1C low -65F -54C.                          The summer on the other hand is short and hot the temperature can go up to 40 C.                    The precipitation usually is in the summer   and the average is 40-85cm.      The closed forest which has closley spaced trees with mossy ground cover. The other major taiga, the lichen woodland, is the type of taiga is where the trees are farther spaced and they have a lichen ground cover. The lichen woodland is colder than the closed forest,which you can tell because its more north.