Milano is at almost exactly the same latitude as Trieste. Perhaps you're trying to make some point that Trieste is on the adriatic sea so it feels more like sou

Milano is at almost exactly the same latitude as Trieste. Perhaps you're trying to make some point that Trieste is on the adriatic sea so it feels more like southern europe. My point was not climatic though, but as we were talking about sand dust carried by the wind, the presence of Alps makes definitely a bigger difference than 50km (the south-north distance from the line Trieste-Milano to the swiss border). The same Alps are what make Ticino climatically quite diatinct from the northern part of switzerland (the mountains affecting climate)