The Most Tropical City Year Round? (better, compared, places, America)

[polo89]

Originally Posted by Zone13

Some Tropical Plants in South Texas

Looks EERILY similar to Florida.

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by OyCrumbler

That's one definition of tropical. If you're talking about climate though, there's the Koppen Climate classification and other related systems which are possibly more useful as there can be very different regional conditions. In the latter case, Miami is definitely tropical as the Gulf Stream delivers a steady bit of heat throughout the year.

Miami is basically on the border of sub-tropical and tropical. It's warm year round, except for cold snaps, so it wouldn't be a stretch to call it tropical. Although tropical climates apart from mountains don't usually receive snowfall!

[DANNYY]

Miami, from the basis of "most tropical".

[RickSantos]

I see the Florida Tropical Wannabe Pretenders ( a phrase coined by Razwell Google him) STILL are performing all sorts of acrobatics and cannot accept that their state is NOT tropical.

Hawaii is the ONLY, ONLY, ONLY, ONLY, ONLY, ONLY tropical US state.

[californio sur]

Why are people still arguing about Miami? It and the rest of south Florida are as tropical as it gets in the U.S. outside Hawaii. It may not be technically "tropical" bit it sure comes close!

[FLABoyJ]

I don't even count Hawaii anymore. It's not the main 48 so who cares about it.

From a Biased opinion, it did not register first in my head when I created the thread anyway. Miami did.

[TB Fla]

Originally Posted by RickSantos

I see the Florida Tropical Wannabe Pretenders ( a phrase coined by Razwell Google him) STILL are performing all sorts of acrobatics and cannot accept that their state is NOT tropical.

Hawaii is the ONLY, ONLY, ONLY, ONLY, ONLY, ONLY tropical US state.

Look at both Chicago and Miami. According to YOUR definition of Tropical, neither of them are. So does that mean Miami is no MORE tropical than Chicago?

[Zone13]

In 1977, some parts of the Bahamas received traces of snow, would you believe that?

[Zone13]

Originally Posted by Zone13

Some Tropical Plants in South Texas

It may have reached 14ºF in 1989, but this how it looks like in the last 20 yrs.

[Zone13]

Originally Posted by TB Fla

Look at both Chicago and Miami. According to YOUR definition of Tropical, neither of them are. So does that mean Miami is no MORE tropical than Chicago?

Miami is semi-tropical, Chicago is cold temperate.