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Is Florida Going To Have Some Iowa Weather?

Glad to see Trad's scientific declarations about snow not being able to accumulate in Florida held true.

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Glad to see Trad's scientific declarations about snow not being to accumulate in Florida held true.

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Really unusual for Trad to be wrong about something.
Don't worry. @The Tradition will be here soon to admit he was wrong. He's a big man that way.
 
We have about 4" in the yard right now.

I don't have any ditches to get a Trad measurement.

The wind has been whipping l, so I'm sure there are some drifts.

This is the first time my youngest son has seen snow fall. He's 31 and has traveled a lot, but never experienced it.

He broke his dry January today and has been having a blast.
 
Trad was right, it didn’t stick! 🤣

We did this in high school, but with an old tractor tube behind my buddy's truck on a level B road. The road was torn up frozen mud, so it was extremely not smooth, and getting up over 45-50 mph. No broken bones but I saw the nastiest bloody nose I've ever seen. One of those things that makes you cringe to think back on now, someone easily could have died, but damn it was fun at the time.
 
We did this in high school, but with an old tractor tube behind my buddy's truck on a level B road. The road was torn up frozen mud, so it was extremely not smooth, and getting up over 45-50 mph. No broken bones but I saw the nastiest bloody nose I've ever seen. One of those things that makes you cringe to think back on now, someone easily could have died, but damn it was fun at the time.
I have a vivid childhood memory of my uncle welding two car seats to an upside down 60's truck hood and pulling us around a field on my grandpa's property on the snow with his Jeep. It's a miracle no one was injured or killed.
 
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If that stays ice and accumulates, you're going to be wishing it had been snow instead. Godspeed, that shit sucks.
Next two days will get into the 40s, so it should go away. But I'm really hoping we get some actual snow tonight so they kids can play in it. My daughter made a little 'iceman' out of the stuff on the deck. If there are a few inches as forecast tonight we'll be able to make a proper snowman in the (dry) retention pond a few doors down.
 
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A lot of folks have heat pumps which aren't effective below 40 degrees. I have a heat pump system but supplement it with modern space heaters.

6" of accumulation so far and still coming down. Forecast was 1 - 3 inches yesterday.
West FL? That is a decent snowfall for anywhere and the most I can remember in the state.
We put in a new Bosch heat pump this year and it is doing the trick in the low teens, but it does have a supplemental heat strip. This month will tell us what the power bill can get up to.
 
West FL? That is a decent snowfall for anywhere and the most I can remember in the state.
We put in a new Bosch heat pump this year and it is doing the trick in the low teens, but it does have a supplemental heat strip. This month will tell us what the power bill can get up to.
People like to scare you with the power pull of the heat strips. I've found that, because they actually put out well heated air, the system runs less so it balances out.
 
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