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The only reason America is so cold is due to its connection to the arctic. It can have all the flat land it wants.
Wrong_in parts. Parts of America (US) are cold because of the altitude. Don't forget the Rocky Mountain West where I live (Montana) Average elevations are around 5,000 feet in many parts of the Rockies, with Colorado being even higher. Leadville is at 10,000 feet.
You should come for a visit, Butte MT (the richest hill on earth) has a very proud Irish heritage-you would be made to feel very welcome!
Yes the South does occasionally get arctic blasts that defy its subtropical nature, but if we open the topic up to extremes then shouldn't we also talk about:
* Maritime climates like Seattle that see 90 degrees or above every summer (with a record high of 103)?
* Sub-arctic climates like Fairbanks see heatwaves into the 90's each summer? I mean how can they claim that Fairbanks is subarctic when it hits 90's each summer (and a record high of 99)? That doesn't sound sub-arctic to me.
Everyone seems to just accept that these are natural variations for climates like Seattle and Fairbanks, but if the South gets an occasional cold snap, then people deem that it "truly isn't subtropical". Just as a freak heat wave in Fairbanks does not mean the climate is not sub-arctic, a freak cold wave in the South doesn't mean that it isn't subtropical.
Because the people on this forum are amateur climatologists, that's why.
No real climatologist will ever state that the winter-time temp variation in the South far exceeds that of any other subtropical region. The hard, irrefutable, empirical evidence does not exist
Because the people on this forum are amateur climatologists, that's why.
No real climatologist will ever state that the winter-time temp variation in the South far exceeds that of any other subtropical region. The hard, irrefutable, empirical evidence does not exist
but the hard irrefutable data you speak of show the vast majority of deep south locales with AVERAGE lows in the 30s in winter, and even some cities see snowfall every year. sorry but that screams to me everything but subtropical paradise that you argued about in the other thread.
You should go in winter though...different story, wild swings between cold and warm!
That's why I think Miami is borderline subtropical and not full blown tropical.
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