Posted on 01/06/2010 6:20:17 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
‘Fla. is not supposed to be cold like this’
Farmers fear bitter freeze could destroy strawberries and other crops
The Associated Press
updated 7:42 a.m. ET Jan. 6, 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Florida farmers worked to salvage millions of dollars worth of crops and sun-seeking tourists were met with chilly temperatures expected to last through the weekend as an unusual Southern cold snap gripped the Gulf states on Wednesday.
A hard freeze warning was issued along the Gulf Coast, including most of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Forecasters say the dangerously cold air mass could force temperatures into the teens in parts of the region by Thursday.
Subfreezing temperatures along with heavy snow also hit parts of New England and created treacherous roads. In western New York, a woman and her infant daughter were killed late Tuesday when their car slid and slammed into a sport utility vehicle towing a trailer with two snowmobiles along a snow-covered roadway.
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Right, but we are in a ice age. Get used to it.:-)
Relatively warm right now here in southern Michigan. I’ve got 26 degrees and that’s a downright balmy winter day.
Neither is central Texas....
Starting Thursday, we will not see ABOVE 32 degree weather until Saturday high of barely 40!!
Running 22 miles in the 20’s is not the easiest thing to do...
AP just can’t seem to understand why something like this is happening when Al said it’s warmer! Come on Al! You promised!!
The sad part of this is now the Space Invader crowd will point to this as a sign of ‘climate change’ caused by the activities of man.
My wonderful orange tree here in NE Florida is in mortal peril.
I picked all the fruit before Christmas, but the tree itself is in danger of splitting in the 25* temps.
Boo hoo! How DARE it get cold there!
It’s 29° here in North Carolina. Suck it up, pansies.
Just switch to currants.
http://www.weeksberry.com/CURR.HTML
Cold-tolerant to zone 2. ;D
(and if Florida ever gets to be zone 2, I’ll be a popsicle here in Jersey!)
Florida used to be cold like this every January. It’s a return to normal.
Yep- pretty damn chilly here in central Florida this week. But we’ve had these snaps before...don’t tell anyone- but they come and go in cycles. Kind of the natural order of things :) Still- seeing 28 degrees on my thermometer is an eye-opener.
Wait till we get cap and trade. Corporate sponsors will be wanting weather reports that help keep carbon stock prices up. Your home thermometer will read 20 degrees and the weather reports will tell you its 15 degrees warmer.
Are you being chased? Just kidding. I don't like to run period, but if it is below 40 my lungs and I like it less.
Our local paper is so invested in promoting global warming feat they can’t report stories like this.
It was 36 here at 0700, just south of West Palm Beach. I feel just terrible for all those poor Jets and Yankees fans who spent all that money to come down here for the warmth and sun and to escape the brutal winter in the northeast.
Our local paper is so invested in promoting global warming fear they can’t report stories like this.
Tampa Bay area, very near the water, so we don’t usually see frost. On the golf course the frost was so heavy, it almost looked like snow on the fairways. It’s supposed to get colder in the next couple of days.
I live a mile from the Gulf of Mexico here in the Panhandle, and it was 23° this morning as I went out the door................
26 here as well—coast of NC, about 2 hours north of Wilmington.
I want my globull warming and I want it NOW! LOL
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