Gloabl Warming!!!
This seems to be matching the solar cycle predictions. It seems that another climatologist is buying into the natural-cycle global warming thing. Heretic! Burn him at the stake!
Boston will break its all-time snow record for December tonight.
That weather guy must be a newcomer to FL, I have seen much colder weather than that down there.
I was born and raised in FL, and lived there until the mid-'90s except for the three years when I was very young and we lived in western NY state. I saw snow flurries in the air many times in central FL where we lived in the late 1940s, and have seen morning lows of 12 degrees in Tallahassee in Jan of 1963 and 18 degrees as far south as Avon Park in 1957. I watched it snow off and on from my office window for a couple of hours one afternoon in the mid-'70s, and although the temperature was about 35 there was enough snow stuck on cars for kids to write their names in it with their fingers. It also snowed several inches and closed highways and streets from the GA/FL line to Ocala in late December of 1989 or 1990, can't remember which year.
IIRC the FL all time record low is minus 02 degrees, and that was set at Tallahassee during the big freeze of the 1897-98 winter that almost put FL out of the citrus industry for a decade. My long-deceased grandfather told me lots of tales about that winter. He said that for several weeks he, his dad, and his brothers had to break solid ice out of the frozen watering troughs every morning and refill them by drawing warmer well water in order for their cattle and horses to drink. Their only home heat was one fireplace, and their mother's wet dish towels froze stiff overnight in the kitchen every night for several weeks.
What the FL Chamber of Commerce type folks don't want you know is this. Although FL probably has the warmest and best overall winter weather in the continental US, it's not a true tropical climate except perhaps in the extreme south everglades and the Keys.
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~
Have a Global Warming cocktail - frozen orange juice concentrate in a glass.
Found this thread late. I have been watching temperatures around the country daily for the past 3 months. The Southeast had been warmer then normal up until a week or two ago. My guess is that this is due to La Nina which delayed the cold winter from reaching the southeast. When La Nina and the Earths natural cooling system is working, trade winds move warm water west. This moves warm waters into the Gulf and off Florida. These warm waters may have been delaying the cold temps we have been experiencing in the West and Midwest late November and December. The fact that these cold temperatures have now broken into the southeast means, well, winter is now finally here and this one should be rather nasty. Solar surface activity has been very low for at least a year. IOW - Expect many more freezing episodes this winter in Florida.