What areas of Westeros are NOT affected by winter?

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What areas of Westeros are NOT affected by winter?

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Simple enough question. In Westeros, what areas of the continent, if any, are not affected by winter, and can still grow food, if any? I've heard it was Dorne, but I'm unsure about that. If Dorne doesn't have to worry about the winters, what about the Reach? How far south does the winter really go?
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FaxModem1 wrote: 2019-04-22 08:01pm Simple enough question. In Westeros, what areas of the continent, if any, are not affected by winter, and can still grow food, if any? I've heard it was Dorne, but I'm unsure about that. If Dorne doesn't have to worry about the winters, what about the Reach? How far south does the winter really go?
Pretty much on the money, the Riverlands, the Iron Isle, basically everything north of King's Landing freezes like up like Siberia. It's better off across the sea per the books but still pretty bad, the further east you go the less bad the winters get per RR Martin. Which makes sense from the whole Others bring the Winter theory that's been long running.

There's also another theory out there that the world orbit is not only unstable (Hence changing seasons) but that the orientation of the planet changes in addition to facing more away from their sun.

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Re: What areas of Westeros are NOT affected by winter?

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I prefer the sorta-Britain correlation of something with a sorta-cyclic sea current that only affects the western coast of westeros?

And since it's on the west coast, it has only limited effects on Essos which explains why they do not have such a pronounced the summer/winter problem.
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