Cold in the South
I know it’s hard to generate a lot of sympathy from those of you who are in our nation’s colder climes, but its very cold here in Florida. We’ve had temperatures dip into the low 30s, and in the Orlando/Ocala area they’ve had a hard freeze. Poor Bogie is so cold he’s sleeping on my lap instead of his usual position at my feet. I’m bundling up and sipping hot chocolate and thinking of heading further south, but we can only go so far!
It makes me worry about our local farmers and growers. It’s orange country here, and farmers are covering trees and running sprinklers to minimize the effects of frost.
It makes me worry about our local farmers and growers. It’s orange country here, and farmers are covering trees and running sprinklers to minimize the effects of frost.
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I had the same reaccion when I moved from Ohio searching for that warm weather in the winter in Kissimmee/St Cloud area... where is it????????
Maria, I know, in NE they are having just as warm temps as we are if not warmer, lol. Go figure, haha. We have a friend (co-worker of my husband) that went to Iowa over New Years and she thought she was still in Iowa when she got home, I warned her it was going to be cold, lol.
The first year we laughed during the winter and seldom even wore a jacket, laughed and asked ourselves why they would sell winter coats, gloves, scarves, and boots when it doesn't even get cold here. We really laughed when they would tell "wind chill" temperatures when it would get down into the 40's and lower. When we would call our Nebraska relatives we'd laugh and agree with them how nice it was here in Central Florida (St. Cloud).
The second year pretty much the same thing, we maybe work a jacket a little more often.
The third year, we weren't laughing quite so hard and wore heavier jackets and more often.
Fourth year and on, we are really aclimated to warm/hot weather and when it gets down into the 30's and 40's, sometimes even colder, we definitely aren't laughing anymore, we are downright COLD. I will say we still don't wear 'winter coats' but my husband does at work and he wears stocking caps and gloves.
Family and friends that live "up north" get upset if I post on Facebook about it being cold and say we don't have anything to complain about, let them live here a few years and see what they think then.
I will admit our 'winters' don't last as long, but we also never have a White Christmas. Nothing puts you in the Christmas spirit as the crisp temps and the beautiful snow. And yes, I know that they don't always get a White Christmas, like this year, either.
Another misconception is the humidity. Our family in Nebraska gets temps in the 100's and very high humidity, these can last from one day to weeks sometimes. Our normal temps are 92 - 94, when we first moved here I would say, "Why even tell the weather, just say repeat, repeat, repeat!", even the afternoon rains were "repeated" daily. Normally I don't find the humidity any worse than I experienced in Nebraska.