Central Florida's overnight forecast: "Your ton-ton will freeze before you reach the first marker!"

[ddeclue]

[XemaSab]

1. 49 here now

I think I'll go put on a sweater. :P

[Cetacea]

37. 34 in Ft. Lauderdale. And 40 in Greenland.

[Mojorabbit]

2. It sucks

I cannot believe my avocado, mango and apple trees decided to be in FULL bloom in the middle of all this. No fruit for me this spring and summer. I can't wait till this cold snap dissipates. I hate hate hate it.

[Fla_Democrat]

3. Tell me about it

Up in the northern part of the state, the damn blast doors are frozen shut... couldn't take the 'ton-ton' out for a spin. :evilgrin:

[donco6]

4. You poor babies!

LOL!

[ddeclue]

7. I rent a 50 year old Florida house with crappy insulation and windows.

For most of the last week I've basically had most of the house shut up with the vents closed and doors closed and I've been pushing all the heat into my living room area. I've lived in cold places before (Detroit in the middle of winter, Germany, England) but it's hard without proper equipment.

[donco6]

10. Sorry. Just had to snicker a little.

But I see your point.

I'd send you one of my electric blankets if it would help.

[aquart]

14. You be damn careful about that.

[BreweryYardRat]

42. I'm in pretty much the same situation.

Do you have sliding glass doors, too? Those wreck heat convection like you wouldn't believe. (Thankfully, my room doesn't have them.)

One bright spot -- we might see fewer palmetto bugs in the next couple months. All the ones outside, and (hopefully) any in unheated storage spaces (garages, attics) will have died off. I heard somewhere that they can't live when it's under 40 degrees for any significant length of time.

[Lorien]

11. Drafty 85 year old house with no central heating

and it's down into the mid 20's tonight in Orlando. I lived in Cleveland when I was younger and never got this cold for this long in the Winter.

[BreweryYardRat]

44. Wear warm clothes to bed and huddle under your best blanket.

I just crashed out in the stuff I was wearing today -- fleece jacket, t-shirt, jeans -- and pulled a thick blanket over me. Slept great, and the cold wasn't too unpleasant when I woke up.

[Lorien]

52. I've been in two layers of cotton, plus cashmere, polar fleece and a lined jacket

since Wednesday. thank goodness for flannel sheets and two down comforters..plus rum. Rum is good. ;-)

[BreweryYardRat]

55. Rum is GREAT.

And your comment reminded me that I've just about emptied my bottle of Captain Morgan. Thanks!

Gotta go compare liquor store prices now.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. "Then I'll see you IN HELL!"

Actually, if you feed your Ton Ton Bantha meat when it gets cold (yes, I know. Different planet, different system) they make it to the third marker.

[jmondine]

29. ...or Miami

[Cetacea]

38. Same difference.

[A HERETIC I AM]

47. Actually, Hell is in unincorporated Dade County.

South West. Near the Everglades.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. The Republicans who refused to believe in global warming...

...can be picked up frozen, on the seventh tee.

[ddeclue]

8. I find their lack of faith disturbing...

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:evilgrin:

[csziggy]

9. Here in Tallahassee, we have not been over the mid-fifties for ten days

And every night the temps have been below freezing, sometimes in the teens. This has never happened before - even the winters it snowed or in 1988/89 when it got down to 8 degrees, it did not stay as cold as long. We have to go out and break the ice off the water troughs for the horses. The wildlife is suffering - the deer are stealing the birdseed out of the feeders. I usually do not feed the deer, but I may go buy them some corn tomorrow. I will have to go buy some more birdseed and suet since the deer are emptying them every night and corn is cheaper than birdseed.

I am so glad I am in our new, well insulated house! The old house would have been so cold, even after we upgraded the insulation and windows! The only real complaint I have is that the humidity is so damn low. I just can't deal with 10-20% humidity - my sinuses are bleeding and my skin is cracking and bleeding.

I know you guys up north think we Southerners are wimps, but we don't own the clothes and generally don't build our houses for this kind of weather. Why buy heavy duty winter clothes when you might need them ever fifth year or less? Somewhere I have thermal underwear, but I have no clue where it got stored when we moved. For my upper half, I do many layers - long sleeved shirt, sweater, fleece jacket, coat - but that does not keep my knees warm. And I deperately need a hat with flaps to keep my ears warm!

[hedgehog]

57. I couldn't believe the report the other day - it was 15 degrees colder

in Tallahassee than in Fulton New York. We made the news on ABC and NBC last week for our 52" of snow. What no one told the national audience is that this kind of snow is nothing strange for us, that the roads were cleared down to bare pavement and that the stuff was so light and fluffy it's settled down to about a foot now anyways!

[brewens]

12. We've had it easy up here in Idaho. One week of temps in the teens

right before Christmas. 10 day forecast says no freezing weather in sight. It's been between 35 and 40 degrees most days. I drive for a living so it's been nice. Been like that all over the inland NW.

[Kurt Remarque]

13. and...you may have a new teabagging senator

[Arctic Dave]

15. No sympathy from me, it was -42 this morning.

[ddeclue]

16. I'd say "hell froze over" then but Sarah Palin left Alaska and has been

running around in the lower 48 hawking her "book" recently.

[Arctic Dave]

23. While she is gone we plan on changing all the locks. She's your problem now.

:)

[Forkboy]

18. Damn, how far into the arctic are you, Arctic?

I'm in north central Mass and we were very frosty, but it wasn't any damn -42! :)

[Arctic Dave]

19. If I look out my window I see the arctic ocean, after that, the next thing is the north pole.

:)

[ddeclue]

20. To employ a Palinism: He can see Santa Clause from his front porch!

:rofl:

[Arctic Dave]

27. Santa is a pretty good neighbor, except for all the reindeer poop. LOL

[Forkboy]

21. Yeah? Got room for another?

I love the cold and hate people. Can't we arrange something? :)

[Arctic Dave]

28. You'll have to talk to HR. I'm not authorized to hire. :)

[Occulus]

30. Good GOD.

:wow:

[Alamuti Lotus]

24. it was 42 for a high today

I was working outside for most of today, and at one point I said "fuck, that's kinda cold".. bit of a breeze, not a terribly warm breeze at that, but still. Thanks for the perspective from Oregonistan.

[Arctic Dave]

26. 84 degrees is a hell of a tempature variation. I'm sweating just thinking about it.

[Skittles]

31. I WILL KICK SOME FROZEN ARCTIC ASS

YES INDEED

[Arctic Dave]

46. KICK IT'S ASS SKITTLES!!!!!

:)

[tango-tee]

36. Brrrr

It's a balmy 17° here in Bavaria. Quite a bit of snow, though.

[Arctic Dave]

48. And you have great beer. Sounds like heaven.

[tango-tee]

53. Heaven if it's 75° outside

and you're sitting under a chestnut tree in a Biergarten, watching the world go by.

For the time being, I'll stick with sipping Glühwein made after Grandma's recipe (with warning label attached, since you'll never be the same person afterwards), while sitting on the sofa and watching the snow fall outside the living room window. Aaaaah. Bliss.

[Forkboy]

17. Oh fer crying out loud....it's Florida, not the Yukon.

:crazy:

:)

[ddeclue]

22. Yeah but you have to put it into context...

we don't build our houses for cold weather.. they don't have the heaters or insulation for it. We (a lot of us) don't have a lot of cold weather clothes (although I do since I'm a transplant).

[Forkboy]

25. I know.

I don't have any heat so it's all relative. Today hit the low 40's and it seemed downright toasty to me. It's all a matter of how one prepares, both mentally and physically. If you're ready for the cold it isn't so bad, but when you live in a place where the cold rarely visits in can be a hassle.

Stay warm!!!! :)

[flyarm]

32. self delete ..it posted 2x

[flyarm]

33. Everyone in the nation will feel our cold in their grocery stores in the near future.

Our agri. Crops have taken a beating with this highly unusual sustained cold..

The famrers are fighting to try to save their crops!

And tonight and tommorrow are supposed to be the coldest yet!

We can get a day or two of cold and save crops..but this long of a sustained cold ..is very hard for the farmers to save the crops.

[proteus_lives]

34. What a fucking tragedy!

Really puts the 20 FUCKING MINUTES I spent scraping snow and ice off my car into perspective!

;-)

"Then I'll see you in hell!"

[malaise]

35. It's 68 in Kingston Jamaica

and the wind is howling like a hurricane.

[trumad]

39. Currently 30 in Orlando

Most of my friends are from the mid-west, northeast... and they to are freezing their asses off.

[Jeanette in FL]

40. 20 degrees here in North Florida

I am between Gainesville and St. Augustine and we are freezing. The fireplace cannot keep the house warm Brrrrr. The horses water has to be broken up from the thick layer of ice.

Thankfully, I am from New York, so I know the importance of layering. But Floridians are not prepared for this kind of cold spell. Many do not have proper insulation or even heat in their homes.

We are supposed to warm up towards the end of the week. Keep warm my fellow Floridians.

[FlaGranny]

41. Yeah, there are old people in my neck of the woods

with no heat - in their 80's and 90's. I'm hoping they all survive. 32 degrees is as tough on old people as it is on our winter food supply. South Floridia supplies a large part of the vegetables and fruit the rest of the country needs. The "northerners" will stop laughing when they try to buy their lettuce and tomatoes snf cantelopes.

[The Doctor.]

45. I'm not looking forward to produce shopping today...

But I'm sure I can do without if I need to.

Meanwhile, it's be in the teens in my area... a cold one indeed.

[Solly Mack]

43. We're still in a deep freeze here. Since before Christmas....

Blistering cold, snow, ice...








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[Call Me Wesley]

50. I wonder if Daisy will affect us here, too.

So far, bright blue sky although the temps dropped a little. And the forecast changed from showing snow to only showing rain. It's around 4° C (43° F) here.

It was bad in France and Spain, too. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/303102,winter-blizzards-ease-across-europe-but-experts-say-more-to-come.html

:hi:

[Solly Mack]

51. Let's hope not. Naming this weather front Daisy is just so cruel.

Daisy and sunshine and warmth go together. Not Daisy and wet and slushy and cold. :)

I won't wish this weather on anyone. It's just plain miserable.

We had a bright blue sky day a few days ago. Bitter cold but bright and blue - and then it went back to dreary the next day.

The roads are free of snow for the most part - but ice and slush are a biggie.

[Codeine]

49. Star Wars nerd helpfully points out

that it's Taun-taun. ;)

[ibegurpard]

56. haha

I was looking for someone to correct that

[KG]

54. i grew up near DC, now that i in live in FL, i refuse to be cold. so, i'm not cold.

but it is a little brisk out there. :P