Coldest Day You Can Remember! (Jacksonville, Tampa: appointed, school, university)

LoveLivinNCities · 08-19-2009, 06:37 AM

So alot of people browse through here and think florida, hot, humid and oh yeah...reallly hot lol. But the fact is (from my experience) most of the year is comfortable, and I much rather prefer the florida summer, to the DC area summer, where there are no ocean breezes or water really around to keep you cool. So everyone that has visited, lived, or known someone in florida that remembers those few very very cold days. Lets hear them

Tallahassee- Mid February, 23 degrees at night.
Jacksonville- Early December, 29 Degrees with icicles in the morning!

RVlover · 08-19-2009, 06:44 AM

I know this is about Florida, but, Id just like to say 23 f. is balmy compared to what i experienced in northern illinois in 1984 : -26 f. actual with -80 f. wind chill. I agree, most of the time the Florida weather is lovely and im more than willing to put up with 3 months of hot.

LoveLivinNCities · 08-19-2009, 06:55 AM

well yeah...23 degrees sounds like swimming weather compared to that haha. But people have this mindset that nothing below sweltering year round, when at nights for a good part of the year in NE Florida, i had to wear shorts and a hoodie, or pants and a long sleeve shirt. just to cold to be out beach bumming it

beachmouse · 08-19-2009, 08:24 AM

We get a couple days with overnight lows in the upper 20s every winter and it'll stay cold long enough to draw a hard freeze warning.

The worst of it for me was when I used to work in Ft. Walton Beach. My usually very pretty morning commute took me across a barrier island, and there were a couple times I'd end up having to stop for gas on the island when it would be in the low 30s with a lot of wind coming off the Gulf.

As for overall coldest times in my life, I grew up in Michigan and we got in the -20F a couple of times, which was not pleasant even with a big heavy coat.

Granny Sue · 08-19-2009, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by RVlover

I know this is about Florida, but, Id just like to say 23 f. is balmy compared to what i experienced in northern illinois in 1984 : -26 f. actual with -80 f. wind chill. I agree, most of the time the Florida weather is lovely and im more than willing to put up with 3 months of hot.

This is tooo funny...that's the year I moved to Florida...we lived up near Naperville, Ill and were keeping electric blankets on the car hoods just to make sure they would start in the morning....safe?? lol NO! but it worked.

My coldest experience in Florida...not of my own doing that is....would be when Disney had the NASCAR truck races out there....the 1st year it was about 35 and windy...the higher you were in the stands, the colder it got.

Now on the motorcycle@ 48degrees going 60 mph....that's cold and I don't care where you're from

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TriMT7 · 08-19-2009, 08:54 AM

Coldest temps I've experienced in FL was in Tallahassee -- in the teens at night.

When I was a kid in PSL, FL (Southern FL), I remember one particular winter where it was in the 20s at night for a couple of days.

xlabel · 08-19-2009, 09:27 AM

A resident in Tampa, Florida, brushes off snow (with what looks like a piece of paper) from the windshield of her car on the morning of January 19, 1977. Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, University of South Florida. Digitization provided by the USF Libraries Digitization Center.

Although not the coldest day, I can remember when it snowed in 77. We didn't get this much snow in Clearwater. Just about every school in Pinellas closed for the day, except for mine, I was so disappointed.

0akback · 08-19-2009, 02:37 PM

in Tallahassee:
When I was 19 (in '01), I had an '81 Yamaha Virago 750, always having problems and such. My girlfriend at the time (now my wife of 7 years) said, "the day you fix your bike, I want you to take me for a ride." The day I got it running, it happened to be very, very cold. We bundled up as best we could, and hit the road to the nearby town of Havana. It was midday as we arrived, and I noticed the bank clock in the town showed 26F.

Not the coldest, but that was damn cold, being on the motorcycle without proper winter riding gear (imagine a 60 mph wind chill).

The first year I lived here was '89, I remember it snowing enough to collect on the ground. My mom grew up in WPB, she says she remember it snowed there and collected on the ground, I don't know what year that was (may have been same time as the above pic?).

Practice · 08-19-2009, 02:59 PM

Where I came from we saw -40 F on many occassions.

Coldest I've seen in FL has been about 35 I think. It's funny how that felt cold.

FertilityDoc · 08-19-2009, 08:47 PM

Last year in Chicago. I actually took a photo of the temperature gauge in my car. It registered -15 degrees. That is without any wind child. It is clearly the coldest temperature I had ever experienced. I was wishing I was in Florida that day. My father who was in Cocoa Beach at the time was complaining about the temp going down to the 40's there. He did not get any sympathy from me!