This weather we are having right now is downright gorgeous!!!!!! I love the cooler weather. We do get some freezing temps occasionally over night in January and February. That is when my Ginger plants suffer from the cold but will come back beautifully when the warm weather is upon us.

Best post of the day!

Yes, this is very typical for North Florida.

When we drove down here in 1989, the Welcome To Florida sign on I-95 had snow all over it.

El Nino is good for Illinois, not so much in Florida. But you're still better off here. Welcome.

Greetings Fellow Hellinoisan!
 

We moved down here 3 years ago. Yep it’s definitely colder than normal. This feels like more January weather. Welcome!

Except for the heavy rain this past week end this is average. 10-15 degrees cooler warmer S. Florida and cost of living 50% higher there.

I have lived in Florida 40+ years. Most of the time, the weather is great and you do not need sweaters and jackets. It seems when there is an El Niño, it brings colder weather to Florida. After reading about Anchorage in early November, my wife and I dug out our hats, scarves, gloves, and warm socks. We are hoping we will not need them but have learned to be prepared. If January and February are unusually cold, it is difficult to find items to keep you warm. The stores sell out of them, quickly. With La Niña, it seems to bring more rain and more hurricanes.

Don't hold this as gospel truth. Mother Nature does as she wishes. My experience has been that most years are quite pleasant.

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Wellllllll….it’s 30 degrees above average where I live so 🤷🏻*♀️ My house in TV still seems like it would be nicer to be at 😂 Seems to me that we should just enjoy retirement wherever it is. Right now I’m wishing that I was ‘cold’ in TV 😂

This is an El Niño winter which causes changes to the normal weather patterns. El Niño is a climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean and occurs every 2-7 years.

The National Weather Service (NWS) says that during strong El Niño events, average winter temperature favors warmer than normal conditions across the northern tier of most of the nation and colder than normal conditions over most of the southern states

El Niño generally brings above average precipitation to Florida during Fall-Winter-Spring with a higher risk of flooding. According to the NWS in Tallahassee, Central Florida averages between 8 to 10 inches of rainfall during a typical winter. But during El Niño winters, that rainfall total rises to between 10 and 13 inches. One El Niño winter season even brought 18 inches of rainfall during the winter. Central Florida leads the entire state for above average rainfall during El Niño winters, with some locations averaging as much as five inches above normal.

El Niño events, especially strong events, have been tied tightly to well above normal storminess and strong tornadoes across the Florida Peninsula between November and April.

Not too unusual , the Villages in my opinion is about as far north in the state as you want to be , go 100 miles further south much better year round climate.

wait till Feb when you are watching blizzards on tv and then going out to play golf. that's the best. However, we have had a few nights here where the temp was 27....frost kills plants, so be aware. Last year there were a few nights like that.

Thank you for the many thoughtful responses!!

Very helpful.

In the worst of the winter in the St. Louis area, temperatures often hit single digits and occasionally went below zero.

I’m mighty grateful to be out of that!

Way too cold here in the winter. Too bad TV wasn’t built much further South.

Thankfully we have beautiful weather April thru September. Once we start hitting 90’s everyday paradise has arrived.

Florida Cracker here. Left crowded South Florida 14 years ago. Saw 28 degrees F one year, 3 days in a row. Wide swings happen.

January 19th 1977. Snow in Miami.

This is normal. Albeit a little early. The difference here is we can have 30 to 50 degree swings in one day. The cold season is over in a flash and then it's hot as heck and crazy humid. Spring and fall feel like they come and go in a flash. We do get frost here in T V. So certain plants need to be covered.