[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Davonu

I’m from Ohio. Florida doesn’t have damn cold.

We see if change you mind in couple years. I’m from NW Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma at my age cold is cold. First cold spell I always seem to get sore throat and cough.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

We see if change you mind in couple years. I’m from NW Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma at my age cold is cold. First cold spell I always seem to get sore throat and cough.

We're in our 6th year living down here. Yes, it's cold this week at night. But not cold enough to complain about it. I just put the quilt on the bed last night for the first time this year and was cozy and comfy under the covers til I woke up.

Being outside when the temps are in the 60s is refreshing. It's like the weight of a Florida summer and humidity has lifted and the air is once again welcomed back into my lungs. Yup - gotta dress for it, wear socks instead of sandals, sweater or hoodie over your tee shirt, long pants, and your nose runs when you're outside so bring tissues.

It feels GOOD to be chilly. If the temps were down in the 40s during the day, and 20s at night, I'd be complaining. Whining. Ranting. And miserable. But it's not. It's gorgeous.

[Lea N]

Originally Posted by MrFlorida

For me, anything below 70 is cold.

Me too. I'm originally from CT but even back then I never ever got used to the cold winters. We've been in Fl since 96'. It took a long time to get used to the hot summers (10 years or so) but now it is much easier for me to tolerate the heat than the cold. 39 degrees is bitter cold.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

I have to admit, both age and spending winters in Florida for several years has started to make me go soft. We don’t head south until after the holidays (wife won’t do the holidays without the kids) and every year I hate December up north more than the prior year. Cold weather is definitely for the young! I even passed on golfing this week. Having to bring a cordless drill to drill a pilot hole in the frozen ground so I can tee up my ball is a thing of the past. I’ll wait until after New Years.

I have a double problem. I stay in Florida during the summer and the combination of aging and the summers getting hotter have limited my outdoor summer activities to about ZERO. I am fine from about 65 degrees to about 85 degrees. So, now the (unusual, I think) cold weather for December keeps me inside too much. Maybe it is just me, but as I age, I have become less able to deal with both hot days and cold days.

[Joe V.]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

But no . I would rather not be in Philadelphia even though it's 39 F here at 2:24 AM . And I left my long Johns in Minneapolis.

This is cold.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

I have a double problem. I stay in Florida during the summer and the combination of aging and the summers getting hotter have limited my outdoor summer activities to about ZERO. I am fine from about 65 degrees to about 85 degrees. So, now the (unusual, I think) cold weather for December keeps me inside too much. Maybe it is just me, but as I age, I have become less able to deal with both hot days and cold days.

Same here, sorta. If it's not humid, I'm good with 90-100. But this is Florida and dry heat isn't a thing here. For Florida - 85 is about the higher edge of my comfort zone. 65 is about the lower edge. Colder than 65 and I "feel" the cold. In the house I'm better when it's 68-70 this time of year. We turn the heat to 65 at bedtime and hubby is REQUIRED to crank it up to 68 when he gets out of bed. Happy wife, happy life.

[Brynnie]

Love this cool weather! Great relief from the brutal summer heat, which we get plenty of, long enough! I'm from NE Ohio.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Davonu

I’m from Ohio. Florida doesn’t have damn cold.

That, is a matter of opinion.

[asianthree]

Coming from the north, this isn’t Cold yet.. wore long sleeves with sweater all week at Disney, with jacket at dusk. Frost on windshield every morning using the time honored credit card scraper removal system.
At Zero one breaks out the light ski jacket, glove, hat and a scarf. Then once you are out for awhile the scarf and hat come off, and the jacket gets unzipped. If one is shoving the jacket comes off but the gloves and hat stay on.

[ThirdOfFive]

With all due respect, people who have lived in deep south all their lives have no concept of what "cold" is.

Back in my university days the town where I went to school was located on the shore of a large lake in northern Minnesota. Beautiful spot. I worked weekends at a gas station a couple of blocks away on the same lakeshore to help pay the bills. One January morning (about 20 or so below zero) a car with Mississippi license plates pulled in for gas. In the course of my providing service the driver asked me what all those little houses were out there on that big field. I replied that it was a lake, not a field, and that those "houses" belonged to fishermen who cut holes in the ice once in the house to fish. The guy actually got angry, and accused me of pulling his leg. There were CARS out there on that field and cars can't drive on ice or they'd fall through! He thought that the little houses were the town's "sanitary"!

True story.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

With all due respect, people who have lived in deep south all their lives have no concept of what "cold" is.

Back in my university days the town where I went to school was located on the shore of a large lake in northern Minnesota. Beautiful spot. I worked weekends at a gas station a couple of blocks away on the same lakeshore to help pay the bills. One January morning (about 20 or so below zero) a car with Mississippi license plates pulled in for gas. In the course of my providing service the driver asked me what all those little houses were out there on that big field. I replied that it was a lake, not a field, and that those "houses" belonged to fishermen who cut holes in the ice once in the house to fish. The guy actually got angry, and accused me of pulling his leg. There were CARS out there on that field and cars can't drive on ice or they'd fall through! He thought that the little houses were the town's "sanitary"!

True story.

I spent 5 and a bit of years in the Twin Cities area and was often too hot as the U of MN often had the heat way up. But getting there was another matter. And I would often be wearing a closet of clothes.

[tophcfa]

Brrrrrrr, just came in from walking our little guy at our northern home in the hill towns of the Berkshires. It’s not the 21 degrees outside that’s cold, but the 35 MPH winds with the snow blowing sideways. The little fella ran back to the house faster than I’ve ever seen him move. There’s the sign that it’s getting really close to the time to begin the migration southbound.

[rayschic]

I dont go out, if the temperature is not higher than my age. LOL

[sounding]

Originally Posted by Bilyclub

Seems the cold fronts are coming down earlier and earlier.

Cold fronts are, in general, coming sooner for two reasons. 1. The PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation) has been cooling for the past 10 years. 2. The Milankovitch ice age cycle, called Obliquity, has been cooling for the past 8,000 years. The only reason we're not even colder is because the Bray & Eddy solar cycles are still in their warming cycles. These cycles and more are explained at the Weather Club ... The Villages Weather Club