Geography of Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a large city which draws people in for the many things to do, such as Disney World, or local business such as newborn photography or food destinations. 
Because Florida is surrounded by water, much of it is low-lying and flat. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city of Orlando has a total area of 113.75 square miles, with 105.22 square miles of that being land and 8.53 square miles of that being water.  
The geography of Orlando is mostly wetlands, consisting of many lakes and swamps. The terrain is generally flat, making the land fairly low and wet. The area is dotted with hundreds of lakes, the largest of which is Lake Apopka. Central Florida's bedrock is mostly limestone and very porous; the Orlando area is susceptible to sinkholes. Probably the most famous incident involving a sinkhole happened in 1981 in Winter Park, a city immediately north of downtown Orlando, dubbed "The Winter Park Sinkhole".
There are 115 neighborhoods within the city limits and many unincorporated communities. Orlando's city limits resemble a checkerboard, with pockets of unincorporated Orange County surrounded by city limits. Such an arrangement results in some areas being served by both Orange County and the City of Orlando. This also explains Orlando's relatively low city population when compared to its metropolitan population. The city and county are working together in an effort to "round-out" the city limits with Orlando annexing portions of land already bordering the city limits.

Metro Orlando has an aggregate of 19 finished high rises. The greater part are situated in midtown Orlando and the rest are situated in the vacationer locale southwest of downtown. Skyscrapers worked in midtown Orlando have not surpassed 441 ft (134 m), since 1988, when the SunTrust Center was completed.[citation needed] The principle justification this is the Orlando Executive Airport, just shy of 2 miles (3.2 km) from the downtown area, which doesn't permit structures to surpass a specific stature without endorsement from the FAA.
Some of the tallest buildings in Orlando are:
-SunTrust Center, 1988, 441 ft (134 m), the tallest skyscraper in Greater Orlando.
-The Vue at Lake Eola, 2008, 426 ft (130 m)
-Orange County Courthouse, 1997, 416 ft (127 m).
-Bank of America Center, 1988, 409 ft (125 m)
-55 West on the Esplanade, 2009, 377 ft (115 m)
-Solaire at the Plaza, 2006, 359 ft (109 m)
-Church Street Plaza Tower 1, 2019, 315 ft (96 m)
-Dynetech Center, 2009, 357 ft (109 m)
-Regions Bank Tower, 1986, 292 ft (89 m)
-Premiere Trade Plaza Office Tower II 2006, 277 ft (84)

Skyscrapers & Downtown Orlando

As indicated by the Köppen environment order, Orlando has a sticky subtropical environment (Cfa) like a significant part of the profound Southern United States. The two essential seasons in Orlando are a hot and blustery season, enduring from May until late October (generally agreeing with the Atlantic typhoon season), and a warm and dry season from November through April. The territory's warm and muggy environment is caused basically by its low rise, its position moderately near the Tropic of Cancer, and its area in the focal point of a promontory. Numerous qualities of its environment are an aftereffect of its vicinity to the Gulf Stream, which streams around the promontory of Florida.

During the tallness of Orlando's muggy summer season, high temperatures are normally in the low to mid 90s °F (32–36 °C), while low temperatures infrequently fall underneath the mid 70s °F (23–26 °C). The normal window for such temperatures is April 19 – October 11.[35] The region's dampness goes about as a cradle, ordinarily keeping real temperatures from surpassing 100 °F (38 °C), yet additionally pushing the warmth record to more than 110 °F (43 °C). The city's most elevated recorded temperature is 103 °F (39 °C), set on September 8, 1921. During these months, solid evening tempests happen practically every day. These tempests are brought about via air masses from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean crashing over Central Florida. They are featured by stupendous lightning and can likewise bring hefty downpour (at times a few inches each hour) and incredible breezes just as uncommon harming hail.

Cyclones are not normally associated with the solid tempests of the sticky summer. They are more normal during the inconsistent cold long periods of winter, just as in passing tropical storms. The two most noticeably awful significant episodes in the space's set of experiences, a 1998 flare-up that killed 42 individuals and a 2007 flare-up that resulted in 21 deaths, two of the worst tragedies in Orlando's history.

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