Stefan,
I'm in Maryland and temperatures do not regularly get in the single digits. In fact, that is quite rare. It happens, but not very often. This week it will be between the thirties and low fifties. I think I saw itight dip into the twenties next week. Maryland, D.C, and most of the low-lying population centers have moderate winters, we are not Minnesota or New England. We've had insignificant snow so far this winter. Some winters we've had no snow.
We had more cold rain and tornado warnings but you've had the occasional tornado down there, too.
Still, even with our dark, dreary and cold winters many would rather be down there than up here. College Park is dreary year round, south Florida is so much nicer.
It did shake me somewhat to see a lengthy local TV news film of some bad rain storms in Miami with flooded streets and sidewalks in South Beach and fish flopping around.
I grew up in Miami Beach and we never had such flooding much less live fish flopping on the sidewalks around Collins or Euclid or whatever the names of the streets are down there...I can't remember.
Just this week I read some articles quoting climate scientists as to the time frame before the coastal areas go under. Maybe 30 years, maybe 80 years....one guy was from UF so maybe he was put up to it by the Gator football recruiters....
www.sun-sentinel.com
