I lived in Alaska in my 20s...cold didn't bother me. I'm 50 now, and no thanks!
Is Florida Going To Have Some Iowa Weather?
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And iguanas! There's one that lives on the canal across the street, maybe he'll fall into it and get eaten by the famous crocodile that lives there lol.
If “Iowa Weather” is heading your way, hold on…it was 5F this morning here in Urbandale…. That’s cold enough to freeze the Gulf of America!
Are the weather apps not current with this cold front? I'm only showing low of 44 this wkd but that map shows me in upper 20's/30's? Are the apps automated and not projecting this cold front? Have noticed that on hurricanes incoming too... They are not even close to projecting correctly.
We have had off and on flurries for the last three days or so. Minor accumulations in the shade or on north faces below 3,000 elevations. The 5,000 ft plus peaks are steady white as they should be this time of year.
It is nice to have at least a few weeks of old style winter. We have enjoyed the fireplace lately and tonight I have the wood stove in the basement cranking for supplemental heat.
Our 20 year old gas furnace crapped and we are in the first winter of a new, high efficiency heat pump. So far, so good.
24° with a wind chill of 20° this morning. This should be the last really cold, for NW Florida, morning for a while.
That’s about 2 inches less than I give your mom.
The forecasted storm that was to bring us snow today will roll through but as a cold rain instead. Central Alabama is getting snow but it didn't sink low enough to get it to us.
I am a bit bummed how far off the forecast is from the specter of lake effect snow coming off the Gulf of America. Would have been fun.
37°, windy and wet up here in the western panhandle. Supposed to be back in the 20s again tomorrow morning.
So, the GOA did not produce needed H2O.
Our snowfall at the crib was well below predictions. Rather than 6-8” we got 3” of pretty granular coverage. Surely there is a joke in there somewhere.
Not much melting as we will stay below freezing. 16 is the predicted low tomorrow.
I wish we could send some moisture to the West Coast.
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Let’s do this. Should be a perfect time now that I’m getting over this cold/flu.
Just got back from Florida. We did beaches from Sarasota to Daytona. Mostly 63 to 75 (one day). The 50s days we went to Magic Kingdom and Epcot. The day at Magic about 8 pm it got a bit raw feeling. We did a hot tub in the evening then and in the morning. In the tub it was just fine...
39 on Thursday, and 40+ on Friday. It will be hand to hand combat at the car washes. Then back into the ice box by Sunday night and Monday.
Layer up, y’all. T shirt, under armor or similar, over shirt, jacket/sweater.
As -Dude-Abides, decent socks.
I typically wear shorts…. Not jhorts.
Raleigh went more than 1,000 days with no snowfall and they might see it twice this month! Wow!
My son in Alpharetta had 3" last Friday. Made a snowman.
On the local tv (Fort Myers) news this evening it was stated that this January is on its way to be the coldest January in the last 15 years for Fort Myers.
Yeah, we haven't set any records in Florida, but what's different about this January has been the persistence of cold temperatures. Usually we get a cold front, it's cold for a day or two, and then it warms back up.
The cold fronts this month have just been reinforcing the cold with no in-between warm ups.
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