Florida, are you ready for the cold???

[darkangel218]

I'm not

[Uben]

1. Oh shit! The oranges!

Sell Mortimer, SELL!!!!!!

[kdmorris]

2. I'm in denial

It won't be cold down here until Tues and I'm hoping that will change.

Of course, cold is relative. I've sure there are people in other parts of the country that are thinking "oh, cry me a river" when I say we are going to have a high of 59 on Tuesday.

[Thor_MN]

5. Yup, that's going to be 70 degrees higher than our high on Monday.

59 degrees would have me in shorts and a T-shirt right about now. It all relative.

[teach1st]

3. I took my extra-thick flip flops out of strorage

I'm ready.

It's easy to joke about Florida cold, but people don't realize that many of the houses and heating systems in Central Florida and south aren't built for anything below 40° F. The cold feels different, too, at least to me. Thirty-five degrees feels colder in Florida than in, say, Ohio.

That said, I'm not going to complain. Not after the ice storms and below-zero stuff that our northern friends are experiencing.

[lpbk2713]

4. You're right.

I live in a cement block house built in 1963 and the outside walls aren't
insulated. Few were back then. The attic is but that's as far as they went.

[darkangel218]

9. Are you in south FL?

Central and North will be a lot lower than 35.

[teach1st]

10. I'm in Central Florida

Pinellas County. The surrounding waters tend to insulate us a bit. But we did have snow in '77 (as did Miami).

[darkangel218]

11. I hope it will snow!!!

Just a few snowflakes, wouldn't that be awesome?

I miss snow, but not the cold

[teach1st]

12. I'm all for snow

I'm all for snow...and a snow day at school!





Iorio: A day to remember — when it snowed in Tampa

[darkangel218]

13. Wow..

Thanks for that photo! Ive only been here about 2 decades, no snow thus far

[CFLDem]

15. I agree.

40 degrees in Florida feels colder than 10 degrees in Chicago to me.

[packman]

6. Florida cold ain't all that bad

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moved here from Pennsylvania and I'll take the 2 weeks of cold (40 to 50 degrees) and no snow to the 2 to 4 months of bone-shaking winter complete with hip high snow in the North. But, gotta admit, I do miss the snow sometime and the changing of the leaves.

But, nothing-I guess-can beat Australian heat. Look how these poor candles are suffering

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[darkangel218]

14. I moved here from Europe

We used to have feet of snow, I remember dogs and cats walking on top of frozen snow

I miss it

Dammit

[HockeyMom]

7. I LOVE it

and look forward to it, but then the warm weather lovers of Florida call me the Polar Bear.

[darkangel218]

8. We are under a freeze watch, temps in the 20's with 15mph wind

Monday through Tuesday.