Dumb question for Florida people

[TC Nole OX]

You need a few coats and sweaters/sweat shirts in North Florida. I am in Kansas City right now and the temperature is the same as Tallahassee!

I used to go to Wichita at least once a year some years two or three times. I can remember being there when it was 34 and the wind blowing through my heavy coat like it was a T-shirt. I also remember being there when it was in the mid 50s in Kansas and back in Tampa it was around 30.

 

[TC Nole OX]

Currently 23 in the distant QC suburbs (Kewanee.) 25 in QC

Looks like I may have to break this pea coat out of storage

 

[Nole-4-Life]

I don't go north in the winter. Problem solved.

 

[FSUTribe76]

Do most of you have a winter wardrobe stashed away for visiting northern climates in the winter months, or do you just buy what need in the even you have to travel north during the winter?

A little bit of both. I only had very light windbreaker style jackets and one full length black leather Matrix style duster I had picked up at a Goodwill as a Halloween costume. Then when I went to Scotland in winter about a decade ago, I picked up a normal density and length leather jacket, a thick two layer wool coat and a couple of wool Sweaters and some cotton turtlenecks. Then when I went to Wyoming and Montana in the early spring, I picked up a thick Buffalo hair filled jacket.

 

[Mayland]

Totally accurate.

Gimme a bright sunshine 10 degree day with 0 to 3 mph wind any frigging time over 35 cloudy and 10+ mph wind.

This. I can handle down to about 0 if it’s sunny and no wind.

 

[goldmom]

I went to my now wife's graduation from University of North Florida I saw people walking around with boots and winter jackets on.

It was in the 50's.

LOL that sounds normal to me! BTW I live maybe 5 miles away from UNF.
And it was 36 degrees this morning. 🥶

 

[IowaPackFan]

Back in the day I traveled for work and met a guy who lived his whole life in Tampa and never saw snow. We had a work trip to NYC in January or February— it was about 10°. He showed up in his heaviest coat, something one step up of a windbreaker. He acted tough for two days. Day three he comes in wearing a parka he bought atTJ Max or something.

 

[TC Nole OX]

Low of 10 in the QC yesterday?

Coal Valley, IL Weather History | Weather Underground

 

[ICWestfan]

1983 Gator Bowl - wasn't the temp in Jax that day like 10 degrees at kick? I know about 3/4 of the crowd was in tees and shorts and most of them died from exposure.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

LOL that sounds normal to me! BTW I live maybe 5 miles away from UNF.
And it was 36 degrees this morning. 🥶

Did you get a frost warning?

Seriously I thought that was so weird, frost warnings are not a thing in the north.

 

[joelbc1]

The coldest football game I went to in 2009 was the Orange Bowl in Miami.

It was colder than the Nov. 21 game in Minneapolis.

That wet, cold wind carrying mist off the ocean gets down in your bones when it's under 40 degrees.

The coldest I ever got at a FB game was Jacksonville, 1983 or 84 Gator Bowl! Froze my ever-loving ass off that night. Florida won the game...and the crowd’s #1 cheer was “Give’m hell, Charlie Pell!”
Miserable phuquin’ night.

 

[goldmom]

Did you get a frost warning?

Seriously I thought that was so weird, frost warnings are not a thing in the north.

Absolutely we did. And a warning to cover all our tropical plants too.

 

[goldmom]

1983 Gator Bowl - wasn't the temp in Jax that day like 10 degrees at kick? I know about 3/4 of the crowd was in tees and shorts and most of them died from exposure.

I don’t know the temp but I do know that slimy swamp reptiles don’t fare well. 😬