The worst things about Florida Winter, assuming it drops below 35 degrees:

[Baitball Blogger]

1) The cold does not kill mosquitoes. It just puts them in a state of hibernation. So, there is no upside to Winter.

2) In clothing ware, you have limited choices. You can layer on what you have in the closet, which is usually a series of sweaters and hoodies, but you'll look destitute. Or, you can buy real thick Winter Clothes and coats and look like a total idiot. Or, you can purchase fleece flannel sweaters that will keep you warm and contemporary looking, but now you have yet another thing to store in the Winter chest after two weeks of wear.

3) There's no advantage to going through the drive-thru any more. Might as well do your hair and face and go inside the restaurant where it's warm to order take-out.

I'm sure I'll think of others.

[TEB]

1. Maybe it will kill the pythons

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Frozen iguanas falling from trees during cold snap in Florida

CBS News

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- It's so cold in Florida that iguanas are falling from their perches in suburban trees. Temperatures dipped below 40 degrees Fahrenheit early Thursday in parts of South Florida, according to the National Weather Service in Miami.

The cold-blooded creatures native to Central and South America start to get sluggish when temperatures fall below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, Sommers said. If temperatures drop below that, iguanas freeze up.

They're not the only reptiles stunned by this week's cold snap: Sea turtles also stiffen up when temperatures fall. The wildlife commission's biologists have been rescuing cold-stunned sea turtles found floating listlessly on the water or near shore, but no such rescue effort is planned for iguanas.

Green iguanas are an invasive species in Florida known for eating through landscaping and digging burrows that undermine infrastructure. They can grow to over 5 feet long, and their droppings can be a potential source of salmonella bacteria, which causes intestinal illness.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/frozen-iguanas-falling-from-trees-during-cold-snap-in-florida/

[zipplewrath]

2. Cockroaches

You'd think it'd kill them, but it's not like I'm sweeping them up en masse.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. You're not looking in the right place.

Cold draws them into the house. They will travel through the pipes. Look in the toilet reservoir in a pool bath. (Warning: not for the faint of heart.)

[zipplewrath]

4. Septic Tank

You're telling me to peak into the septic tank.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. No. The reservoir tank.

Lift the lid, but, unless you have regular pesticide treatments, be prepared to run.

[ollie10]

6. The worst thing about Florida weather is having to endure people complaining about it

If you don't like the weather here, go back to where you came from!!!

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Omigod. Lighten up. This is the Lounge.

[ollie10]

8. Omigod Lighten up. It's just not as if it is really cold out there!!!

[Baitball Blogger]

12. It is to someone who grew up in the tropics.

Diversification is a very complicated issue. I have friends who are just seeing snow for the first time, at age 60.

[steve2470]

9. wow cranky much ?

Just block her next time. Block me too, please. Good day.

[ollie10]

10. No. Not me who was complaining about the weather. I am enjoying it

[steve2470]

11. power bill goes up!

I actually love the cold weather here in FL, but I might be in the minority

[Baitball Blogger]

13. I'm okay with it too. It's just not something I grew up with, so it always feels like

a new experience when it gets very cold.

[Phoenix61]

14. My poor plants.

I'm in the Florida panhandle and it gets really hot in the summer, which is fine. However, the plants that can tolerate the heat don't do well when it gets down to the high 20's. I know my night blooming jasmine got zapped. Hopefully, it will come back. Keeping my fingers crossed for my grapefruit and orange tree. So far they look like they are doing ok.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. My night blooming jasmine would grow back here in Central Florida.

But it needs to have all the environmental needs in working order for it to grow back healthy. Mine wasn't in the best place and grew back leggy. Finally, one year, it didn't grow back.

I am babying all my new plantings. They made it through the first night. Two more to go.

Good luck!

[jpak]

38. It can get pretty cold in the Panhandle

Saw sea smoke once on Pensacola Beach.

If you want "Warm Winter FL" you need to be south of Miami.

[Phoenix61]

39. Yeah,

but not willing to deal with the incredibly hot summers that last forever.

[FSogol]

15. Don't the lizards freeze and then fall out of the trees onto unsuspecting Florida Men and Women?

[Baitball Blogger]

17. Yes. In Miami. The iguanas don't like cold weather or don't know how to shelter properly.

[FSogol]

18. You could say the same about Florida residents.

[Baitball Blogger]

20. Oh, without question.

We could do with some good fashion tips. Most of the coats that I have purchased in the past were either too thick, or too thin. And all were drafty. I am liking these new fleece materials.

[whathehell]

26. Lol

[dewsgirl]

19. I live on the east coast, this morning my windshield was frozen, we dont have one of those scraper

Thingies like up north. Between defrost, windshield wiper fluid and my son and I both getting out trying to wipe it off, it was about 5 miles before I could really see anything, kinda bad since I was driving him to school, tomorrow my husband or his brother can take him it's so cold.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. As much as we complain about what is happening to retail stores, we are lucky to have online

access to products that we don't find easily here.

[dewsgirl]

24. True.

[Bantamfancier]

27. Just a tip for the next time

you find your windshield iced up. Use a credit card or in a pinch your driver's license. I carry an expired card in my console just in case.

[dewsgirl]

31. Thank you, good idea.

[catrose]

30. I used my handicap placard to scrape the window

Very thick plastic! Works a treat!

[PassingFair]

36. Thats what spatulas are for! Nt

[yallerdawg]

23. The BEST thing about Florida Winter...

it's over TOMORROW!

[Baitball Blogger]

25. LOL!

Good one.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

28. The tourists from New York will still wear shorts

[yallerdawg]

29. The Minnesota snowbirds...

consider 35 a balmy summer day!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

35. In that area shorts, a Vikings cap & a down vest can coordinate!

[RandomAccess]

32. I lived in Deland, FL for 15 interminable months

It was ghastly.

There were 2 seasons: summer and not-summer, when the one sycamore tree in the state (probably) had its leaves turn sorta brown.

Also in winter, I would often be changing clothes or at least unlayering 3 times. Warm clothes in the morning because it was cold (down into the 30s or 40s!); fewer layers for late morning and early afternoon, and then summer clothes for the rest of the day when it got hot and humid.

I hated it.

I won't even talk about the bugs. Brrrrrrr. But the ugliest among them were almost as big as our cat.

[fizzgig]

33. nothing wrong with the hobo chic look

i rock it all winter (co native spending her first winter in sd here)

[Awsi Dooger]

34. I am loving it

Wearing short sleeves while working outside. Today I painted part of the house. Everyone else is bundled up like it's sub zero.

Reminds me of my Las Vegas years when I'd walk from sportsbook to sportsbook at night in 40 degree weather. So exhilarating.

[Laffy Kat]

37. Spent Christmas in Key West one year.

Southern Florida was having a freak cold snap, 1989 maybe? Anyway, the shell-shocked people of the Keys did the only thing they could--covered themselves with blankets. You'd go to the store, restaurants, anywhere, and the people were walking around with blankets. To make matters worse, we had rented a houseboat, no heat of course.

[Awsi Dooger]

40. Yes, Christmas 1989 was unseasonably cold

I visited Miami from Las Vegas for 5 days and people kidded me that Miami was actually colder than Las Vegas was.

[Laffy Kat]

41. LOL. I know. The day we drove back to Miami it was beautiful again.

Then I had to fly back home to Colorado. I couldn't win. Still, even in the cold and windy weather in the Keys, I had a great time. I remember my sister and BIL mixing Margaritas on the houseboat with real key limes on Xmas eve. I would absolutely do it again.