There are 6 different types of air masses in the United States:
1) Continental Arctic (cA): extremely cold; little moisture
2) Continental Polar (cP): cold and dry, but not as cold as cA
3) Continental Tropic (cT): hot and dry
4) Maritime Arctic (mA): cool and moist
5) Maritime Polar (mP): warm temperatures with a lot of moisture
6) Maritime Tropic (mT): extremely warm with little moisture
Maritime air masses are this way because of their proximity to large bodies of water. This explains why California and Washington's weather is so mild and awesome. This also shows why midwestern states such as Illinois and Indiana experience horribly humid summers and brutally cold winters. And no, Lake Michigan does not count as a large body of water. It's lose-lose for us here in the midwest. Let's just leave now. What have we got to lose.
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