Six most common winterizing screw-ups
 

"HK" wrote in message
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It snowed once or twice in NE Florida when we lived there. Overnight temps
in the 30s and once in a while in the 20s were not rare in December and
January.


Snow is unheard of further south in Jupiter where we were. In the three
winters we spent there, I recall *one* unusually cold morning that left very
light frost on the windshield of my car ... until about 8 am. A few "cold"
nights in mid winter with temps in the mid 40's were more the norm, warming
back up to 70 degrees by 10 am.

Chuck's Boat US report citing that all 50 states can have below freezing
temps is no doubt correct, but I don't know of anyone in the southern parts
of Florida that winterize a boat.

In fact, I think you would be considered nuts.


Eisboch

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On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:23:56 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Chuck's Boat US report citing that all 50 states can have below freezing
temps is no doubt correct, but I don't know of anyone in the southern parts
of Florida that winterize a boat.

In fact, I think you would be considered nuts.

That's true but there was a hard freeze in Palm Beach back in the mid
80s. I had friends living there at the time and a lot of landscaping
was damaged. That could have potentially damaged a non-winterized
boat stored out of the water. The Tampa area gets freezing weather at
least several times every winter.

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On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:14:49 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

Don't some of the Florida citrus growers have to run "smudge pot"
heaters, sometimes, to prevent freeze damage to crops?

Most of them are now using the large circulating fans similar to the
California vineyards. They keep cold pockets from forming in the
hollows.

Central Florida gets freezing weather down as far as Lake Okeechobee
and a bit beyond.

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On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:49:12 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:


That's true but there was a hard freeze in Palm Beach back in the mid
80s. I had friends living there at the time and a lot of landscaping
was damaged. That could have potentially damaged a non-winterized boat
stored out of the water. The Tampa area gets freezing weather at least
several times every winter.

Yeah, Tampa's record cold day was 18 degrees. That's cold enough that it could cause
damage.

http://radar.meas.ncsu.edu/climatein...recordlow.html

What surprises me more about Florida's weather, isn't the cold, it's the heat. I lived in Miami a
couple of years, and it would be in the low nineties almost daily in the summer, or at least it
seemed so, but Miami has *never* reached 100 degrees. That just seems odd to me.

http://radar.meas.ncsu.edu/climatein...ecordhigh.html

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thunder wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:49:12 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:


That's true but there was a hard freeze in Palm Beach back in the mid
80s. I had friends living there at the time and a lot of landscaping
was damaged. That could have potentially damaged a non-winterized boat
stored out of the water. The Tampa area gets freezing weather at least
several times every winter.

Yeah, Tampa's record cold day was 18 degrees. That's cold enough that it could cause
damage.

http://radar.meas.ncsu.edu/climatein...recordlow.html

What surprises me more about Florida's weather, isn't the cold, it's the heat. I lived in Miami a
couple of years, and it would be in the low nineties almost daily in the summer, or at least it
seemed so, but Miami has *never* reached 100 degrees. That just seems odd to me.

http://radar.meas.ncsu.edu/climatein...ecordhigh.html


It's the proximity of the ocean. It absorbs an incredible amount of
heat. And in the winter, releases it.

Six most common winterizing screw-ups
 

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:50:13 -0400, HK wrote:


What surprises me more about Florida's weather, isn't the cold, it's
the heat. I lived in Miami a couple of years, and it would be in the
low nineties almost daily in the summer, or at least it seemed so, but
Miami has *never* reached 100 degrees. That just seems odd to me.

http://radar.meas.ncsu.edu/climatein...ecordhigh.html


It's the proximity of the ocean. It absorbs an incredible amount of
heat. And in the winter, releases it.

Yeah, I understand that. It's just that it's 91-93 every damn day. You would think that just
once in history, it would hit 100. :-)

Six most common winterizing screw-ups
 

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:31:56 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:50:13 -0400, HK wrote:


What surprises me more about Florida's weather, isn't the cold, it's
the heat. I lived in Miami a couple of years, and it would be in the
low nineties almost daily in the summer, or at least it seemed so, but
Miami has *never* reached 100 degrees. That just seems odd to me.

http://radar.meas.ncsu.edu/climatein...ecordhigh.html


It's the proximity of the ocean. It absorbs an incredible amount of
heat. And in the winter, releases it.

Yeah, I understand that. It's just that it's 91-93 every damn day. You would think that just
once in history, it would hit 100. :-)

Miami gets a sea breeze off the ocean every afternoon in the summer
and the water temperature rarely get above 85 or so.

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Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:14:49 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

Don't some of the Florida citrus growers have to run "smudge pot"
heaters, sometimes, to prevent freeze damage to crops?

Most of them are now using the large circulating fans similar to the
California vineyards. They keep cold pockets from forming in the
hollows.

Central Florida gets freezing weather down as far as Lake Okeechobee
and a bit beyond.

What does that have to do with global warming? :)

Dan

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Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:31:56 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:50:13 -0400, HK wrote:


What surprises me more about Florida's weather, isn't the cold, it's
the heat. I lived in Miami a couple of years, and it would be in the
low nineties almost daily in the summer, or at least it seemed so, but
Miami has *never* reached 100 degrees. That just seems odd to me.

http://radar.meas.ncsu.edu/climatein...ecordhigh.html

It's the proximity of the ocean. It absorbs an incredible amount of
heat. And in the winter, releases it.
Yeah, I understand that. It's just that it's 91-93 every damn day. You would think that just
once in history, it would hit 100. :-)

Miami gets a sea breeze off the ocean every afternoon in the summer
and the water temperature rarely get above 85 or so.

The humidity has a lot to do with it. The air, and the water in the
air, have to be heated.

Dan