I've finally convinced my wife
After 40 degrees on Tuesday we woke to 7" of more snow overnight. We've gone back and forth about warmer climates during retirement. She's finally had enough. I still have a 8' drift at the end of my ...
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travelnutz wrote:
Laman,
We are south and west of Gainesville and close to the warm Gulf Of Mexico so we get the warm west air off the Gulf. Will be about 34-36 F here tonight - mid March, 33-34 at Ocala and has been in the mid 30's for 6 or 7 nights so far since mid January. It's very bitter cold and feels 20 or more degrees colder than the same F reading back in Michigan. Our 4th year by the Gulf here. Spent about 6 weeks in a winter where US-192 dead ends at US-27 - was Bass Lake Resort on Lake Davenport and it's just as cold as where we are now.
Bro lives at Jupiter, FL and we've spent 4-5 weeks many years there and kept a boat there for 19 years when we had our place there. Had a membership since 1987 at Okeechobee Landings at Clewiston on the south side of Lake Okeechobee and stayed there many weeks in our RV's in winter. Not to mention our many times in the Keys in CG's and it's warmer but I don't have to mention the many drawbacks. Do many of these afore mentioned meet your "Central Florida" criteria?
It's often very cold in the center of the state at night in the winter. Seen ice on the ground and frozen spigots on a Christmas morning at Okeechobee Landings and that's even far south of you yet and have film pics at home to prove it!
Yes, there are nice warm days too but many cold fronts go thru every year in the winter and it's windy and bitterly cold as heck behind them. I agree that Central Florida and the little towns are a much nicer place to live and the people are much nicer than the on the coasts. The coasts are a total zoo and so crowded and a ripoff for everything plus so much crime. Sebring, Avon Park, Lake Wales, etc. Warm in Florida is so oversold unless for are far south and on the coasts or in the Keys. CG are very scarce in the far south and like parking lot slot camping with extremely high prices beyond most peoples reach and so is the food very high. The Keys are ridiculously expensive to stay the winter. We don't like being ripped off!
Just for what it's worth!
Ok your sensitive to anything below 50 degrees, I get it!:) You can always head further south to Cuba.
