Warm climate Romeo wears local skirts (8)
I believe the answer is:
tropical
'warm' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'climate romeo wears local skirts' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'romeo' could be 'r' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.) and 'r' is located in the answer.
'local' could be 'topical' (similar in meaning) and 'topical' is present in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tropical that I've seen before include "Of regions north and south of the Equator" , "rainforest areas" , "Hot and humid, near the equator" , "Hot and humid type of weather" , "Originating from hotter parts of the earth" .)