Here are a few things (the full list would be rather cumbersome) that make this climate so zesty:
-High diurnal range 6 months of the year despite being in Florida. This is KBKV, which is a cold sink 36 meters lower than the surroundings and so has a high diurnal range due to its frequently much cooler nights than elsewhere.
-Back-to-back unusual extremes. Nowhere in Florida do you see 38C and 8C normally in the same month, as happened in May, nor back to back usual monthly minimums of 7C and -4C, as happened in November and December.
-Uneven heat distribution. March and April both set all time record highs and so they were respectively 4th (tied with July) and second (tied with June) highest temperatures that year.
-No February or March frost that KBKV is so vulnerable to as a cold hole despite the dry February and March - rather a January 22 last frost. If you were used to the past 3 consecutive seasons that had false hope frostless Februaries with dumb March backloads, this part is even zestier.
-Very average November diurnal range, not the norm for KBKV either.
I rate it an A to A+ for my weather monitoring. It meets all the criteria for good Southeast US weather monitoring of a long frost free season, the coldest temperature being no colder than usual, and loads of record breaking heat, and the only reason it doesn't automatically get an A+ (I'm on the fence) is that the first frost ideal criteria (December 21 or later to be on or after the winter solstice compared to December 9 2020) and coldest temperature ideal criteria (above the usual) are not met.
But it's absolutely amazing and it's a real shame I missed this for the dumb March backloads in 2022 and 2023.
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