Florida varies from subtropical to tropical weather as you travel south.
What is the difference between subtropical and tropical?
You can have different types of bad weather like hurricanes. Subtropical hurricanes were officially recognized back in 1972.
It is interesting how America has so many different kinds of weather. In Europe it's not as varied.
2010 Atlantic hurricane season
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season was the first in a group of three very active Atlantic hurricane seasons. It is tied alongside 1887, 1995, 2011, and 2012 with 19 tropical storms, the third highest count in recorded history. It featured 12 hurricanes, tied with 1969 for the second highest total. Only the quintessential 2005 season saw more activity. Despite the high amount of hurricanes, not one hurricane hit the United States making the season the only season with 10 or more hurricanes without a United
winds of at least 17 m/s.
Synoptic scale Surface-based types Subtropical.
A subtropical cyclone is a weather system that has some characteristics of a tropical cyclone and some characteristics of an extratropical cyclone. They can form between the equator and the 50th parallel. As early as the 1950s, meteorologists were unclear whether they should be characterized as tropical cyclones or extratropical cyclones, and used terms such as quasi-tropical and semi-tropical to describe the cyclone hybrids. By 1972, the National Hurricane Center officially recognized