Is this weather typical? Just moved here from Illinois.
 

We came from Edwardsville, Illinois (near St. Louis). I talked my husband into this gig by promising him that Florida would be a warm and toasty place!

Right now, temperatures in The Villages and Edwardsville are somewhat similar.

Is this typical weather here? Or an anomaly?

Don't you know? These cold temperatures are the result of global warming! :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

But seriously, usually we get a cold snap in January. Last year and this it has hit around Christmas time. Wait for July, you'll be warm enough:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

This is not unusual for this time of year, but unlike Illinois, it will warm up here a lot sooner and more often. When I was living in Upstate NY, trying to decide where I'd like to spend my retirement winters, I wondered if TV would be warm enough for me. My folks spent their retirement winters in the Naples/Ft. Myers area and it's definitely warmer there, typically 10 degrees or so when we have these cold snaps. I opted for TV more for the lifestyle and relative affordability than for the weather. What I have found is that while the coldest days are definitely a bit snappy, in the winter months here in TV we get a lot of days that remind me of the beautiful Indian Summer days we'd get up north.
And, it will get toasty soon enough.

We have been here in a January, that is snowed, didn’t stick, but 31 degrees on a golf course leaves plenty of tee times:a040:

So yes Florida get cold snaps, then pops back to 70s couple days later.

If you promised warm weather year round, mid state isn’t going to have those temps. My family is anywhere between Miami down to the keys. They think it’s cold this morning

Spring, summer and fall can happen all in the same day this time of year.

Aberration. Random cold fronts passing through. Look at accuweather monthly chart for future forecast. I don’t trust any prediction more than a few days out

The average high in December is 72F and the average low is 51F. We were 41F this morning. As with almost any location, there can be fairly large variances on any given day or set of days. For example, I have seen lows in the upper 20s but the coldest average low is in January at 48F. We will be back around the averages tomorrow and then a few days above the averages with another cold spell possible the latter half of next week.

Don't worry, you'll be warm and toasty come July....

A couple brief cold periods happens every year in the Villages. Typically anytime between mid December through mid February. Still way better than up north where we are stuck through the holidays, where today’s high temperature is mid 30’s and tonight is forecasted to get down to 12 degrees. It’s all relative.

Cold here in north central FL typically from mid December to mid February. Florida is a long peninsula. If you want warm weather year round you need to move to South Florida. I don't know how many people who have moved here have told me the same thing. They thought all of Florida had the same weather and it is so untrue. It could easily be 15 degrees warmer in the winter near Miami or Ft Lauderdale. than it is here.

It’s 34 in Edwardsville, it’s 54 in the villages. It’s going into he 70s in The Villages today.

That is not similar.

Enjoy it while you can. We hit 90 during Feb., 2023

I remember visiting my aunt and uncle in Winter Haven in early January, 1969. I had never been to Florida and expected Miami weather. It was cold, raining and pretty miserable. My aunt chuckled and suggested my wife and I drive down to Miami and take a cruise to the Bahamas, which we did and had a ball in wonderful, sunny, warm weather.

that observation reminds me of my first ever visit to Florida. I drove from NY to Miami. When we hit the Georgia-Florida border I thought "we're here!"....yeah, right. This was in 1978, and the speed limit was 55. Took what seemed like forever to get down there.

Closing in on four years here now...Dec. and Jan. have some cold(er) days, even a frost or three on the really cold nights. I recall our first January here...forecast was for a low of 30 f. overnight and there was a "severe weather warning" out as a result, with parents being urged not to let Junior out of the house unless he was wearing a hat AND mittens. Being from Minnesota I got a chuckle out of that: I recall months when the daytime temps rarely got above zero, and -40 at night was not uncommon.

But things (and folks) change. We used to be amused by locals wearing long coats, hats and gloves when the temps hovered around 40, now I'm one of them.