Re: Snow in Florida Sat/Sun?
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 1/6/2010, 10:35 pm
I heard on the local news that electricity usage is up 40% leading to some very minor issues for some people. Most people use electric heating here. My house has the same thing, air conditioner and electric heat in one.

However, we don't ever use the heat at my house. My dad did build a fire 3 days in a row since a tree we have died and the wood was handy. The current temperature inside my house is 58 and falling. (65 at the moment in the room I am in with the door closed with the computer and body heat working to keep me warm!)

As for the water, it's a no go here. Aside from springs, it's cool. Today there was a ceremony that is held annually where teenagers jump in a lake to find a cross they throw in the water. The water temp, 50, the air temp around 40. Not fun I'm sure.

I love the cold, went out in shorts and a tshirt this morning when the wind chill was 16, but even I'm not crazy enough to get in water. Looks like Gulf temp might be around 57 at one station and around 60 at one of the Tampa Bay stations. I will not be jumping in my canal any time soon! (Not that I would ever swim in it anyway, sewage spills happen all the time upstream.) And while it might be an interesting science experiment to jump in the pool, it's a little green this time of year. I have to heat up the water just before I take a shower, cold water is not a fun wake up.

Actually just came across another article from another local power company that said usage is up 70% compared to what is typical this time of year. Wimps, lol! Compared to the temps elsewhere, upper 50's feels nice. I just wear two pairs of socks to keep my feet warm on the cold tile floor. That and some hot chocolate and warm baked cookies. Very yummy.

Darn cold better not kill my plants though. It may have froze at 32 for about two hour at my house this morning. I was talking to my dad tonight about a freeze when I was very young, maybe when I was like 1 or 2, perhaps 1985. Almost everything in our yard died when the temp hit the teens. Dozens of types of plants (sounded like hundreds of plants in our yard probably died) and trees died, including big trees. Apparently the freezes we have had since have been much more minor, because some of the trees we have now grew back from the ground after that around 1985 freeze. We have about a twenty foot bottle brush tree that grew back from the ground after that freeze.

Temp just hit 37 at 10:23PM at the nearest reporting station to my house, might be another freeze tonight. At least I have hundreds of plumeria trees, so even if the freeze gets some, chances are some will live.
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