>>2420038>Also how can something be subarctic and mediterranean right next to each other?The koppen climate system has multiple gaps that many places in the world fall in between or on the border of. The only real difference between Dsa/Dsb/Dsc and Dfa/Dfb/Dfc is a couple degrees of difference in temperature isotherms. Similarly the only difference between Dsa/Dsb/Dsc and Dwa/Dwb is rainfall patterns, (eg. two places could get the exact same rainfall, have the exact same temperature isotherms, but one place has 2 dry months and the other has no dry months).
Examples like this occur all over the western US (many prominent ones over very short distances occur in Arizona especially). And as the other anon mentioned it is largely due to elevation and topography, but it is also due to inherent variability and difficulty in climate mapping such that no map can fully depict a completely accurate model down to the smaller scales (similar to the coastline paradox). For the most part the areas of Dsb/Dsc and Dfc between 6,000-9,000 ft in that part of Wyoming look roughly the same (subalpine forest and meadows w/occasional scree fields below the tundra zones on mountains).
tl:dr - Topography and inherent problems/difficulties with climate mapping (especially on smaller scales and in transition areas).
