Brrrr!
January 10th, 2010 by ComputerBob
My wife and I lived in the Frostbite State for more than 17 years before moving to the Sunshine State. We arrived here on Christmas Day, 2003, and we’ve really appreciated how sunny and warm it almost always is.
I say “almost always” because for the past several days, the arctic jet stream has been bringing us cold, overcast, windy, northerly weather.
So instead of our normal daily high temperatures of 70 degrees (21 C), we’ve had several days of highs that have been 25-30 degrees lower than normal.
And last night, our temperature dropped to 28.6 degrees (-2 C) for a few hours — the very first time that we’ve dropped below the freezing point in the 6 years that we’ve lived here.
But we know that any time it gets cold down here, it’s really cold up in the Frostbite State.
Like last night, when it got down to -6 degrees (-21 C) there.
We’re supposed to have another cold night tonight — maybe even a couple of degrees colder than last night — but then our temperatures are expected to rise back to our normal, comfortable levels within the next several days.
Back to the comfortable “room temperature” temperatures that they aren’t going to see in the Frostbite State until around June.
And, although 28.6 degrees is considered really cold in the Sunshine State, at least we never have to endure the 50-below zero temperatures and 100-below zero wind chills that we used to have to put up with up in the Frostbite State for a week or so every January.
So I guess we can survive a week or so of abnormally cold weather, with 2 nights that drop below the freezing point, once every 6 years.
Update, January11: The meteorologists were right when they predicted that last night would be even colder: It got down to 25.9 degrees.
Update, January12: Two nights of below-freezing temperatures turned into 3 nights of it: Last night, it got down to 29.5 degrees.
Update, January13: Last night, it got down to 34 degrees, and 12 of the first 13 days of this year, our highs for the day hasn’t even gotten up to 60 degrees (15.5 C), let alone our normal average high for this time of year of 70 degrees (21 C). So the “week or so of abnormally cold weather” that I mentioned above has blossomed into almost 2 weeks of abnormally cold weather.
Update, January14: Last night, it got down to 39.6 degrees (4.2 C) but this afternoon, it warmed up to 73.0 degrees (22.8 C) and we opened all of our windows. Finally!
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