The tropic of... Cornwall: Coastal county classified as having subtropical climate putting it on par with parts of Vietnam and Mexico

The picture is from one of the Scilly Isles which is permanently in the tropical jet stream. All isles are different. Lovely and quiet with no cars.

Actually they say the climate is subtropical - not tropical. Sydney also has a subtropical climate but I'd say we enjoy far warmer temps than Cornwall.

Lol that's all I have to say!

Last summer and this summer in the UK a total miserable disaster and then we get the climate change begging bowl when we should be spending on UK business and job creation.

But do they have fast broadband and 4G?

Cornwall or Cancun hmmm........

Which parts of Vietnam? I was in Da Nang earlier this year and the heat and humidity were at levels incomparable to anything that can be experienced in Cornwall, short of standing in a centrally heated greenhouse with all the doors and windows closed on the hottest, cloudless day imaginable.

Met a Mexican chap in St Ives last July and he had at least a couple of layers of clothing on - he wore a wooly hat he had bought from a pound shop to replace his normally worn sombrero. Lovely man. So I think this article is dubious.

I remember going to Abbotsbury subtropical gardens 30 years ago and it had a microclimate that allowed subtropical plants to grow then.

Great climate in the South West we even have bananas growing on the tree in the garden.

Rick Stein is probably planning a banana plantation.

Not really, moors and heaths exist the world over where soils are poor and the land is deforested and overgrazed.

They should have a crack at growing the coca plant

Possibly I may have to move there if we can get past tonight's end of the world thingy as reported in the DM and for which I am currently getting ready for with some pre "bracing for disaster" exercises....I wouldn't want to pull a hammy.

I live in Devon and not far from here there is an agave growing in someone's garden.

Beautiful, I'd love to visit Cornwall one day!

Did it really take a report from Exeter university to confirm this, again. Beaches in Cornwall have been known as the English Riveraire for decades, but of course they also get much more rain.

Oh this is what it is about..."Report author Dr Ilya Maclean said: 'I guess this shows that with a weakening pound and worldwide instability you don't need to go abroad for a subtropical holiday, you can just go to Cornwall instead"...

Love a bit rain down ere... Rain bleddy everyday. Tis Ansum. Pasty and rain... He's bootiful

Lovely county, lovely local people, lovely weather. No I'm not Cornish. But how it rains and the wind doth blow.