Articles of category "Subtropical climate"

A semitropical climate implies that the air temperature usually does not go below freezing. This is a threshold temperature for a gamut of plants, and applies to coastal California, southern Florida, coastal Australia, and coastal South Africa The term semitropical can be used to mean a range of latitudes between 23.5 and approximately 35 degrees. The climate of Hawaii is atypical for a tropical area.

Subtropical climate implies that the air temperature usually does not go below freezing (0°C). Humid subtropical climate usually occurs in the interiors of continents or on their east coasts, between the latitudes of 25° and 37°. Summers are very wet there due to monsoonal influence. A monsoon is a periodic wind, similar to sea breezes, but much larger in scale, stronger and more constant and fast.