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Yes, those terms are more to the tune of the climate of places like NYC.
Tropical= no.
I mean, Central florida does not have the same kind of climate as Washington DC.
Yes Humid transitional is a less misleading climate classification. Nashville has both characteristics of cool winters similar to places like Seattle (that isn't 'subtropical) yet have summers like a tropical location like Costa Rica This can also include places with even colder winter like NYC, DC, Akita or warmer winters like Shanghai.
Well Nashville is warm most of the year so I wouldnt call it humid transistonal. Ideally places like Chiacago and NYC would be humid transitional.
And Nashville because it has cool winters similar to Oceanic climate like here and has tropical like summer temperatures so its transitional. I think Chicago would just be Hot summer continental how it is now. Humid transitional for me is just places that is currently classified has subtropical.
But how is it transitional if it has an average high of 15c or above for 10 months of the year? I know it has wintery weather, but that is over a very short time span and is not very reliable.
But how is it transitional if it has an average high of 15c or above for 10 months of the year? I know it has wintery weather, but that is over a very short time span and is not very reliable.
Well Nashville does have a record low in the -20s so thats pretty transitional to me, it has a bit of both worlds. In the winter temperatures must can well below freezing on occasions.
Yes but those kind of conditions are only occuring once a winter and only last a few days. Because it gets into single figures lets just say its transitional.
Yes but those kind of conditions are only occuring once a winter and only last a few days. Because it gets into single figures lets just say its transitional.
All of which leaves me uninterested in trying to classify climates this way - I simply prefer to look at a place's data and form opinions directly.
Yes, I have a similar opinion. I don't care either way; if someone comes up with a better classification system, then cool. If not, then whatever. I personally don't need anything to change.
But I just wanted to sum up why arguments persist whenever the word "subtropical" comes up.
If I understand correctly, "subtropical" simply means the average temperature (day+night/2) in the coldest month is at or above freezing. Which means, places that can get HUGE snowstorms, like, say, Washington, DC, are "subtropical".
Yes, it's pretty broad and can put a lot of climates in one class. A place that is snowy all winter is subtropical because its winter mean is above freezing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akita_City#Climate
When I think of humid subtropical, I think of places like New Orleans and Tallahassee.
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