Why Is Florida Cold Colder Than Anywhere Else?

Why Is Florida Cold Colder Than Anywhere Else?

Don’t disturb cold-paralyzed iguanas.

There’s a certain smugness that radiates from northerners when they see a Floridian shivering at 58 degrees. “That’s not cold,” they’ll say, wrapped in their smug little sweatsuits they brought “just in case,” while locals scramble for dusty space heaters purchased during the Great Freeze of 2010.

But here’s the thing about Florida weather those yankees don’t understand: Florida cold is a different cold. A sneakier cold. A meaner cold. A cold that has learned to adapt to its humid, subtropical environment and attack from angles that dry, honest northern cold would never dream of.