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Really? New Orleans, Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami..... How large is large? You still have Mobile, Savannah, Charleston and cities that size.
Miami is large, but it is tropical, not subtropical. The other cities you mentioned (New Orleans, Jacksonville, Savannah, etc) are small/mid-sized at best.
Again, H-town is the only large-scale coastal city in the US with a humid subtropical climate.
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If you cannot accurately tell me the weather tomorrow, let alone next week or next month, don't try and tell me 30 years from now.
No dreams. No winter in the SE US has ever had cold temps coming close to what was seen in the 80s. Furthermore, cold cylces around all subtropical regions; cold and freeze/ice used to regularly happen, right down to Big Sur:
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California was much colder when the first explorers were being blown around off the coast in the 1500's and 1600's. Those were arctic gales. California was in an eighty- year drought that intensified the extremes. Ice was hanging off of the Big Sur coast, and the mountains of Big Sur were covered with heavy snow. The water aboard ship froze, and the Salinas river was frozen to the point that a musket couldn't break it. So if Monterey was like present day Reno, what was Reno like, never mind the Bristlecone area?
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No dreams. No winter in the SE US has ever had cold temps coming close to what was seen in the 80s. Furthermore, cold cylces around all subtropical regions; cold and freeze/ice used to regularly happen, right down to Big Sur:
I bet the whole country was colder then if that's the case, otherwise, what did Richmond look then like Orlando does now?!?
Maybe, maybe not. Then again, in the 1800s, north Florida was warm enough to have wild royal palms. Texas and Louisiana grew sugar cane back then (and still do).
Have you ever been to Alice Springs or Coober Pedy? 90% of Australia is almost uninhabitable.
If you want to talk individual cities, LA vs Sydney, Miami vs Perth, Portland vs Melbourne, etc that would be one thing, but overall Australia's weather is so bad you cannot live in most of the land mass.
Because they have access to water. Without the Colorado River and the water table there would not have been enough access to build major cities.
I have been to Alice Springs and thought it was a fantastic climate. Hot sunny weather with few clouds was great to go walk around town and also go hiking around not too distant Uluru which was the experience of a lifetime that I will never forget
True they have access to the Colorado River but Australia could also build irrigation systems and more desalination plants to supply water to inland areas too if they wanted but there is no political will to do so.
I bet the whole country was colder then if that's the case, otherwise, what did Richmond look then like Orlando does now?!?
In this case yes, but you do realize there are decades cycles where the west is above and east below and vice versa. It could have very well been a cold west and warm east.
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Hot sunny weather with few clouds was great to go walk around town and also go hiking around not too distant Uluru which was the experience of a lifetime that I will never forget 
