[rogercobb]

I don't notice any difference between now and June/July. Maybe its 1 or 2 degrees cooler at night. When I visited D.C. in early August I was warned how hot it would be and I was visiting at the worst time. Let me say, coming from Orlando it was signifigantly cooler esp. at night. I had jeans and long sleeve and felt fine and it felt like Orlando in late October. If I head to downtown Orlando and do that I'll be drenched in sweat after 15 minutes. And when forecasters say its 92, consistently my outside thermometer will show 98 and the inside of my car will be 160 degrees. It is SO much brighter down here to with the intense sun. Anyways, I'm looking forward to October and the drier weather.

[FLBob]

Big House - when I lived in MD and fished the rock, blues, weakfish and drum that roam the Chesapeake, I fished a 22 ft walk-a-round like you pictured above. When I lived in Naples I would take it offshore to fish the wrecks for grouper, snapper, amberjacks, barracuda , and cobia. Now I have a flats boat and target the snook, tarpon, reds, cobia, shark, and trout that enjoy Charlotte Harbor and Lemon bay. I can go real skinny about 9 inches.
I guess the Florida heat and humidity don't bother me since I spend so much of my free time around, on or in the water. On land I spend it tending my orchids under a live oak in my back yard. Inside my A/C is set to 81 just to keep the humidity at bay, ceiling fans keep me feeling cool.
Plus I don't miss having to cut a hole in ice to fish during the winter.

[TANaples]

Originally Posted by FLBob

For all of you who seemed to have forgotten this past winter, there was ice in my mother-in-laws fountain in January this year. She lives on the Peace River in Punta Gorda. It wasn't just a skim coat it was three inches thick! In 2002 we had a series of cold fronts where the night time temps threaten the freezing mark. An orchid grower around Arcadia told me he had low 20s on his front porch for over 6 hours!
In 92 Naples had snow flurries. Many of the palm growers on Pine Island had millions $ in lost trees.
Through out the 90's the tomato growers experienced losses due to frosts, even fields south east of Naples and west of Miami.

Well back to yard work, it's a chilly 85 degrees in the shade on my lanai with a 10 mile an hour breeze out of the NE. Pool looks inviting. Once the work is done, I'm going fishin.

it doesn't stay that way in the stay. Yes, we got into the 40s (will not freeze water) at NIGHT sometimes, but it heated up into the 70s in the day. In order to have 3 inches of ice it not only has to be below 32 degrees, but below those temps for sustained periods during the DAY. It will melt very quickly if the temps even get into the 40s during the daytime. To use snow analogy, we would sometimes get 3 or 4 inches of snow on the ground. If the temps rose into the 40s the next day, all the snow would be gone. You would never even know it had snowed the day before.

We had a nearby small lake where we used to live. It took weeks of sustained extremely low temps (teens and 20s) for that lake to freeze. It did not happen very frequently on Long Island. I seriously doubt it would in Florida, even up north.

[FLBob]

Wow lows in the 40's at night and day times highs in the 70's sounds unbearable.

We had a major fish kill here in southwest Florida this past winter from the cold front that caused my fountain to freeze solid (yes we had sub 32 degrees for many hours this year in southwest Florida).

No it's nothing like NY or MD or MI or Pa or Ma, or Ct, or Ne, etc but for the zone 10 plants and native animals it's harder to take than 5 months of lower 90's.

[TANaples]

Originally Posted by FLBob

Wow lows in the 40's at night and day times highs in the 70's sounds unbearable.

We had a major fish kill here in southwest Florida this past winter from the cold front that caused my fountain to freeze solid (yes we had sub 32 degrees for many hours this year in southwest Florida).

No it's nothing like NY or MD or MI or Pa or Ma, or Ct, or Ne, etc but for the zone 10 plants and native animals it's harder to take than 5 months of lower 90's.

Isn't that considered SW Florida? That is where I live and have for the past year and a half. Actually in the TV viewing area of Ft. Myers which I get, I cannot remember any area that got below high 30s (inland areas) for a few nights last year. We never got below 45 in Naples and that was for only a couple of nights here and there. I watch the news every single morning before I leave for work. Actually, according to the weather stats it broke all sort of records being the warmest and driest winter. I wouldn't know about that. It's all too damned hot year round for me.

I sit outside in my lanai every single night, especially in the winter. I never had to put a coat on out there all winter. A flannel robe, yes. Coat, no.

[FLBob]

The freeze of 2008 - a cd thread
Here's a video from tampa winter ice
crops affected
Tomato freeze outside miami
Naples daily news article
Iguanas fall from the trees in maimi

It gets cold here

[Alphaman]

Don`t know about Naples but Orlando can get pretty chilly in the Winter we have days sometimes in the 50`s and lows in the 30`s. Mostly the highs are in the 60`s and 70`s but the humidity is low and you can open windows without having your house get moldy.

[TANaples]

Originally Posted by FLBob

The freeze of 2008 - a cd thread
Here's a video from tampa winter ice
crops affected
Tomato freeze outside miami
Naples daily news article
Iguanas fall from the trees in maimi

It gets cold here

and more north. It never got below 45 in Naples on the coast. That is precisely why when I lived on Long Island we got rain when places west of us (New Jersey) got up to a foot of snow. It has something to do with being close to the water. It warms things up.

[TANaples]

Originally Posted by Alphaman

Don`t know about Naples but Orlando can get pretty chilly in the Winter we have days sometimes in the 50`s and lows in the 30`s. Mostly the highs are in the 60`s and 70`s but the humidity is low and you can open windows without having your house get moldy.

It got below freezing a lot a night. I remember putting on the heat at night back then when I lived there. Days warmed up to 60s and 70s.

Naples is a whole 'nother world. In more ways than one.

[ChrisA70]

Enough said...