The summer is hot, but on the whole the climate is very healthy.
The climate is moist and sometimes oppressively hot, though pleasant on the whole.
Between optimism and pessimism is the theory of "meliorism," according to which the world on the whole makes progress in goodness.
The weather on the whole is remarkably dry.
The climate of the east coast is on the whole considerably more arctic than that of the west coast on corresponding latitudes; the land is much more completely snowcovered, and the snow-line goes considerably lower.