" when it is fall, is there a turning of the leaves, lots of fall colors."

Ah how I wish! No our seasonal change is too subtle. While in the depth of winter, some of our deciduous trees and shrubs do obviously shed leaves, it
is never enough to actually create a topography and landscape of fall colours.

Being born and raised here in the sub-tropics, I had never seen snow until I first went to Europe in 1967.

So comparing us to Florida is not a bad option.

It is akin to tipping the United Staes upside down to visualize the Australian climate geographically.

Our far south has very cold winters and many ski resorts in the mountains in New South Wales and Victoria.
Our far north does not get much of a winter at all and is very tropical with palm trees, beaches, rainforests, sandy islands.

( But I agree that fall colours are glorious and I miss them.)