winter weather in warm places...

[Extremeweatherguy]

i live in florida and even when its 40 degs it fells like 20 new york degrees

yeah when I used to live in Orlando I noticed that too. It is always moist when it gets cold there; so the wet cold air really gets into your bones. I still think 20 in NYC is worse though. I have been there when it was a 42 degree, windy day which was also BRUTAL...it got to 27 that night with 30mph winds and snow. brrr...

[nystate]

Got down to -30+ (or is that -) quite a few times when I lived in NY. We had several stretches where it never got above 0F for days...

[vbhoutex]

Got down to -30+ (or is that -) quite a few times when I lived in NY. We had several stretches where it never got above 0F for days...

I can not even imagine weather like that nor could I stand it!!!!

[jasons2k]

Yes...I had found that one temp. record of 25 in Marathon on weather.com. Upon further research I discovered that it was probably inaccurate, and like you, the coldest reading I found elsewhere was 35...but that is still the middle keys. The far upper keys have probably reached 32 before.

Maybe it was a typo; who knows.....

I had some good information about the Climate in the Fla Keys at one time and now I can't seem to find it. From what I remember about it, there has never been a freeze or even a frost recorded in the Keys. And let's hope it never happens too - there is virtually no "temperate" vegetation in the keys at all. It's all tropical. A freeze would kill almost every plant standing.