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Old 07-18-2012, 09:50 AM
 
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i don't care. palm trees, mangos and geckos live well in miami.
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Old 10-23-2012, 08:32 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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i don't care. palm trees, mangos and geckos live well in miami.
Geckos live in Palm Springs also. Palm Springs is not tropical. Not all geckos live in tropical places. Same with palm treees, which thrive in Californa. Heck, even mangoes grow in California.
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Old 10-23-2012, 09:08 AM
 
Location: South Beach and DT Raleigh
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....and California is not the Mediterranean.
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Old 10-25-2012, 04:43 PM
 
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Geckos live in Palm Springs also. Palm Springs is not tropical. Not all geckos live in tropical places. Same with palm treees, which thrive in Californa. Heck, even mangoes grow in California.
There is even a coconut palm somewhere in Southern California, right on the coast. There are pics online...sad looking tree. And that is a tropical tree. But clearly, California is not tropical as you mentioned.
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Old 10-25-2012, 04:46 PM
 
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Hawaii4evr....California will NEVER be tropical!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Keep dreaming! You are NOT a tropical guy because you weren't born in a tropical climate, unlike the rest of us.
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Old 10-25-2012, 04:51 PM
 
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Pweople here in Miami live in a monsoon climate as defined by Koppen.
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Old 02-17-2015, 03:36 PM
 
Location: Key Biscayne, FL
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Miami is NOT tropical. not even close. my father lives in Jamaica, and comparing Jamaica's weather to Miami's is apple and oranges. Miami is built on a swamp, not a rainforest. Tropical fruit like Bread Fruit and Guinep are not able to grow here. The winter time (which in the real tropics, there is no "winter" season or drop in temeperature to even begin with) is constantly dipping in the high 30's to mid 40's for an extended period of time. Many of the palm tree's here in South Florida (of which, the coconut palms are NOT native to), are tinged yellow/brown and half dead year round from the damage done to them in the winter. People are walking around in jackets and cranking up their heaters for 1-3 months out of the year. And this is not me hating on Miami, I love it here, but I am mearily stating observations. This type of weather would never occur in Jamaica or any other real tropical place below the Tropic of Cancer. That is fact. If you truly believe Miami's weather is tropical, you need to travel more. It has tropical elements, but is not, and never will be, truly tropical.
Cranking up the HEATER for 1-3 MONTHS!? Do you consider 59/73 to be cold enough to *crank up the heat*? I live in the miami area as well and use heat in sporadic 1-3 day bursts throughout the "winter" season. Personally I would agree that miami definately complies with the official criteria for a true tropical climate. However due to its extended period of un-tropical like weather (I consider a average of 59/73 to be untropical) and its Cold Snap potential (IE high in the 50s likely thursday with the low possibly dropping in to the 30s) I feel that it is a quite unique "tropical" climate definately deserves some other recognition like semi-tropical or transitional.
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Old 02-17-2015, 07:01 PM
 
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Cranking up the HEATER for 1-3 MONTHS!? Do you consider 59/73 to be cold enough to *crank up the heat*? I live in the miami area as well and use heat in sporadic 1-3 day bursts throughout the "winter" season. Personally I would agree that miami definately complies with the official criteria for a true tropical climate. However due to its extended period of un-tropical like weather (I consider a average of 59/73 to be untropical) and its Cold Snap potential (IE high in the 50s likely thursday with the low possibly dropping in to the 30s) I feel that it is a quite unique "tropical" climate definately deserves some other recognition like semi-tropical or transitional.
It is subtropical, not tropical.
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Old 02-17-2015, 07:24 PM
 
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By Kloppen ,it is a Monsoon Tropical climate,but at least it is Semi-Tropical stated by aj1013, as there is no city that has the make-up of Miami that is considered Sub-tropical.
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Old 02-19-2015, 01:41 PM
 
Location: Key Biscayne, FL
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By Kloppen ,it is a Monsoon Tropical climate,but at least it is Semi-Tropical stated by aj1013, as there is no city that has the make-up of Miami that is considered Sub-tropical.
Yes!
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