Phoenix32890 wrote:flaja- I don't know where you live, but in central Florida, we only had one night where the temperature hovered around freezing for just a couple of hours (four is the norm for my neck of the woods) It is now 62 degrees, and will be 70 by this afternoon.
In a normal year (based on the standard 30 year averages of recorded weather data) here in north Florida our first freezing temperature comes in the last week of November. But this winter we had temperatures in the upper 20's around Thanksgiving- which was a week earlier last year than normal (Thanksgiving usually falls after the last weekend in November, but last year it came before the last weekend and there was an extra weekend between Thanksgiving and Christmas).
Then a little while after Christmas we had 2 nights in a row when the temperatures made it down to the mid to upper 20s. In a normal year we don't get temperatures this low at all and if it does get that cold it's not until late January or February.
But then last week we had a few days where the high temperatures made it to the mid-80s. Today's high is supposed to be in the mid-70s; tonight's low in the low 60s, but tomorrow night's low is supposed to get into the mid-30s.
So far this year, based on how many times I've had to cover my garden, we haven't have as many cold days as we had last year, but the cold that we have had has been more severe. But then it was so cold last April that we broke 30 year records (and 30 years ago we had the coldest winter on record for this area of Florida).
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