At 10PM CST it was 32°. This is much too early for a freezing temperature,
There’s a tent over the fish pond so the feral cats can get in out of the cold, and I have a lamp on the concrete slab out back for the less friendly cats.
Update: It dropped to 29° and established a new record low for the date.
Update2: Echidne of the Snakes earned the right to use all caps and the exclamation mark for BRRR!
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At 8am EST, it’s 24° in New Hampshire. ‘Bout freakin’ time; the ski resort operators were getting antsy.
At 7:55AM it was a whopping 34° down here. I would be happy to ship you 5 or 10 degrees of frost because houses down here are designed for air conditioning, not heating.
That Is Cold?…
Wimp! This time of year, 32° is down right balmy for Minnesota…….
Last I knew Minnesota had furnaces and insulated houses, which is not a universal feature of the Florida Gulf Coast.
On the other hand, Bryan, homes in Minnesota and New Hampshire were designed to retain heat. We’d die in Florida in the summertime. 🙂
Hmm we haven’t even come close to freezing point yet. Thanks the appropriate deity for the Gulfstream!
In the North you want glass on the South side to collect heat and light during the winter, while it reverses down here. We favor light colored roofs to reflect heat, while you use dark roofs in the North. Reversed design considerations have a price.
We have people who retire down here from the North and build the house they are use to and pay the price in the summer.
I don’t have the Stream, I have the Gulf two miles south of me and it is at about 70°. The problem is that the wind is coming from the North, so that warm air can’t get to us.
According to the Weather Channel’s “Local on the 8’s,” it was 69F when I got up this morning (4:05 a.m.). Last night it got down to about 65, I think.
What amazes a lot of people is that there are parts of Florida that regularly get cold in winter. They hear “Florida” and think Miami. But it’s an eight-hour drive from here to Pensacola — as far from Cleveland to New York City — and it’s a whole other world up there. Very pretty — but not tropical.
You move 20 miles North and snow is usual during the winter, no much and it doesn’t stay, but there is some every year.
I’m concerned about the Shuttle launch and the temperature. We have another cold front due tomorrow night.