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Humid subtropical climates are located in relatively small sections of Europe. The Toulouse region of France, and in places along the Adriatic and Black Sea coasts which are too wet for inclusion in the Mediterranean climate schema, inland from these areas there are isolated pockets where the climate is borderline subtropical but these zones are usually classed as oceanic or humid continental. Average summer temperatures in areas of Europe with this climate are generally not as hot as most other subtropical zones around the world, but the growing season can be adequately long.
Some areas of Europe, such as parts of the northeastern interior of the Iberian Peninsula, southern France Garonne Valley, Adriatic northern Italy, parts of Epirus in Greece around the area of Ioannina, parts of coastal northern Croatia, coastal Slovenia fall into this classification. Along the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, Romania, Sochi, Russia and southernmost Ukraine have summers too warm (>22°C in the warmest month) to qualify as oceanic, no freezing month, and enough summer precipitation and sometimes humid conditions to preclude their classification as Mediterranean but rather border on or are sometimes defined as Humid continental climates. All these areas are subject to occasional, in some cases repeated snowfalls and freezes during winter. In the Azores, some islands have this climate, with very mild and rainy winters (> 13°C) and no snowfall, hot summers (> 22 or 23°C) but with no dry season during the warmest period, which means that they can be classified neither as oceanic, nor as Mediterranean, but only as humid subtropical climate, as with Corvo Island.
In many other climate classification systems outside of the Köppen, most of these locations would not be included the humid subtropical grouping. The higher precipitation and high humidity of summers is not present nearly to the degree that it is in subtropical regions of North America and Asia, making its distinction in Europe all the more difficult.
Read more about this topic: Humid Subtropical Climate
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