Geography and climate of Miami

Miami, like other cities in South Florida, has a warm and humid subtropical climate, except for occasional cold weather in winter. It is worth mentioning that Miami is the warmest city in the United States in winter, with an average temperature of 10/9.5℃ in October and 28.3℃ in July. The annual average precipitation 1290 mm, mostly in summer; Trade in summer and autumn was hit by hurricanes. There are no obvious four seasons in this area. On the contrary, a year is divided into rainy season and dry season, and the rainy season lasts for six months. The dry season is in winter, and the rainy season is usually after the hurricane season in summer. According to official records, the hottest record in Miami was 39.4℃ on July 17, 2004, and the humidity in summer often kept the heat index between 43℃ and 48℃. The coldest record in Miami was -2.8℃+ 1965438 on February 3, 2007, while the coldest record in this metropolitan area was1October 9 -6.6℃+ 1977. On that day, Miami experienced the first snow since the local meteorological records in the1830s. The South Florida metropolitan area, including Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, is the second largest metropolitan area in the world after Tokyo, where hurricanes are very active. The hurricane season starts from June 1 and lasts until June165438+1October 30th, but there are exceptions. Miami is most likely to be hit by a hurricane from the end of August to the end of 10. According to statistics, Miami is the luckiest city in the world to avoid hurricanes, followed by Nassau in the Bahamas and Havana in Cuba. Although there are many hurricanes affecting this city, including Cleo in 1964, Betsу in 1965, Andrew in 1992, Irene in 1999, in 2000. In addition, a tropical depression passed through Miami in 2000, bringing record rainfall and floods.