[deannadurbin]

This is the longest coldest winter I ever remember in FL and I’ve been here since 1987.

[Justa]

I was reading the Florida Sportsman forum's fishing report for West Central and one report said spear-fishing divers reported the bottom water temp at the middle grounds (125' depth, over 100 mi.s out) was an unheard of 67 degrees with surface temps of 57 degrees. This apparently was the coldest they know of.

And speaking of El Nino, I don't buy it. Both the fact that the water is warmer than other years or that it's causing the cold. I think the east pacific ocean water is warmer than the air by a greater degree than normal because it's so d#@$%$ cold over N America! A simple large temperature difference between the ocean and land not an unseasonably warm mass of water.

[VastRWCon]

It better be HOT in a few weeks as I will be down in Stuart, WPB and then Orlando for a few days...

[rarestia]

I’ve been here my entire life, and I’ve never seen it as cold as it was this past winter.

In parts of Polk county, the strawberry crops needed to be watered so often that the aquifer water table fell and caused large sinkholes to open up underneath I4 in east Tampa and toward Lakeland.

[N. Theknow]

This is the longest coldest winter I ever remember in FL and I’ve been here since 1987.

I moved here in 2005.

My normal attire is shorts, polo shirt and sandals.

I have worn long pants, shoes and socks more in the past two months than all the other years combined.

[PatriotGirl827]

It’s the worst I remember since I have been here, too, which is 1968!