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.
Yeah, in 2010 there were 12 hurricanes . The highest since 1969.
Yes, I heard a lot of people lost their houses. Must be absolutely terrifying.
About two-thirds of Florida occupies a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, approximately , not including the contribution of the many barrier islands. Florida has a total of 4,510 islands that are ten acres or larger in area. This is the second-highest number of islands of any state of the United States; only Alaska has more. It is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Much of the
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