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Originally Posted by cjseliga
Don't most tropical and sub-tropical places have at least a "wet" and "dry" (less wet) season?  |
Yes, most are at least a little drier (some much drier) in the lower-sun part of the year. Miami is a good example.
I haven't been to Miami but I'd expect the vegetation is significantly greener in the summer than in the winter. Also many tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs drop at least some of their leaves in the cooler and/or drier part of the year like
Plumeria and
Schizolobium. Many flower in the spring before the new leaves come out. The more tropical plants will slow down a lot in winter and speed up in growth in summer.
I think you just have to accept the differences from a northern "textbook" idea of what seasons are. Eg my mum is from England and lived in Cape Town, South Africa. She'd talk about "missing the seasons" when she really meant "missing the English seasons" as Cape Town has distinct seasons, with a spring marked by lots of colourful flowers, a summer of much hotter and drier weather in which the landscape dries out, autumn where it greens up and a cooler winter marked by cold fronts and rain.
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