Florida Today December 28 2007

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:10 pm

Wow what a gorgeous day today! I started bringing my camera everywhere in case I have time for a nice detour- especially to entertain those of you who are just about tired of winter already.

First, here's a local map that I scanned- and circled in red where that webcam was located in Winter Park when Harry took my picture last week. That is the upper left circle.

The lowest red circle is where I was today- Baldwin Park. It used to be our Navy Base. Now it's a nice, almost self-contained community- and it's not quite finished. You will see Lake Baldwin.

Also, in the upper right quadrant of the map is where our "Interlachen" is located.

It's an exclusive golf course, about 20 years old.

This will place my pictures in context.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:14 pm

Lake Baldwin, about 4 pm. It was 80 degrees!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:16 pm

Lake Baldwin more- looking right

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:18 pm

More- this is still the same area. There was an ice cream shop on my right.

What more could one want?

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:20 pm

More

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:23 pm

More- downtown area- palm trees and Christmas lights! I bet California does that too!

The pic is slightly larger than the screen here. If so, you might click on the pic in the box and it will open in a larger window, if you like.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:27 pm

More downtown - something fancy! I wanted it to look like an old postcard.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:30 pm

This is the golf course on my way home.
The gates to Interlachen!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:31 pm

Interlachen. Makes one want to take up golf!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:34 pm

Leaving Interlachen- about 4:30 today, December 28 2007

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:34 pm

Oh how pretty and warm those pictures were! Your right, I (for one) AM getting tired of winter!!! Send some heat up this way! lol

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:53 pm

Bah! Humbug!

Yooper · Post by **Yooper** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:22 pm

Anything over 70 degrees is too warm for me! We had a summer with far too many 80 and 90 degree days, I'm enjoying the cold. The photos are nice, Kat, but better thee than me!

twinsrwe · Post by **twinsrwe** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:11 pm

Beautiful pics, Kat. However, 80 degrees is too warm for me - temps that are in the lower to mid 60's, with a balmy breeze, is my idea of a prefect day. A couple of days ago, we had a sunny 32 degree day - I was running around outside in a t-shirt and slacks!

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:14 am

Wow, isn't that interesting, I'd never really thought of it before, we (if we are lucky) become climatized to the enviroment that we live in. When it gets above 80 it's getting out of my comfort zone, of course humidity can facture in on that too. The higher the humidity the more uncomfortable it becomes. Twinserve, Yooper what's the humidity like up your way?? It comes and goes here, but I find in the 70's is comfortable for me. I sleep in a room with no heat, during the winter and a fan blowing on low to circulate the air. Where I lived before, I had the window open all winter and actually woke up one morning with snow on the blankets. Everyone thought I was nuts, but comparitively I wasn't sick with colds or the flu. And slept like a baby.

Yooper · Post by **Yooper** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:13 am

The humidity here is usually tolerable, 50-70%. It can go up or down, but this isn't anything like Milwaukee was, 90% humidity all summer! The extremes, hot or cold, are usually at relatively low humidity. We only seem to hit -40 or 100 at 10-20% humidity, and usually with a stiff breeze.

twinsrwe · Post by **twinsrwe** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:47 am

Our winter temperatures are usually well below freezing, with moderate to occasionally very heavy snowfall; high temperatures in summer often reach the upper 80s and 90s. Very high humidity levels are not uncommon all year around. The wind also has alot to do with how warm or cold it feels like outside. Right now our temperature is 13 degrees F, with a 97% humidity level; it is sunny out with southwest winds around 5 mph.

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:31 am

Snow coming tonight and maybe more Tuesday night. Yesterday the temps hit 51- a rarity for New England this time of year. But I love snow and hope we get more than the 3 inches predicted for the coastal area. Inland CT may get more. Champagne and a rib roast are in the fridge and there's a roaring fire in the fireplace so am ready for whatever Mother Nature will throw our way.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:06 pm

There was a record high of 85 today at the coast- Palm Bay or Melbourne I think.
I sat outside in the sun on my back porch. I need sun. Vitamin D.
Those pics were taken on a dry day- but it has been very humid since that night.

I remember Boston in the early 1970's as 16 degrees below zero. I couldn't tell the difference between zero and 16 below.

Over the holiday we are dropping 40 degrees.

Yooper · Post by **Yooper** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:23 am

Once it gets below zero, it is difficult to tell the exact temperature without a thermometer, cold is cold! When it gets brittle cold, the snow screeches beneath your feet as you walk. When you sit behind the wheel of your car, it takes a second or two to sink into the car seat, it's like sitting on a board! The biggest difference is in the amount of time before exposed flesh freezes. I've come indoors after working outside in below zero weather for an hour or two, and the lower half of my face was solid ice from my breath. I'd be picking ice out of my beard for twenty minutes!

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:42 am

Oh now that's cold! I always figured it was cold when I'd be out and the bit of hair in my nose froze. lol that doesn't paint a pretty picture!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:06 am

Well I have lived here long enough to count my blessings to be warm. I love to be warm. When visiting Fall River I am always looking for a sunny patio.

Here are pics from Boston, c. 1972 and 1973. I lived there 3 years.

The first is me *in my prime* so to speak.

The next is a picture I took out of my 3rd floor window at the John Hancock Building as it was being built. Notice it doesn't yet have all its windows? Copley Square developed a wind-tunnel effect and one afternoon some newly installed windows actually blew out of that sky scraper, landing and shattering on the the Square!

The 3rd pic I also took from out my 3rd floor window at dawn, of the snow collected on the building across the way. That was a really cold winter! 1972 I think, because in 1973 I was living on Beacon Hill.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:10 am

Back Bay, Boston, near YWCA
John Hancock Building 1972

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:13 am

Snow on Cazenova Street, 1972. minus 16 dgrees that winter!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:17 am

On Beacon Hill I lived in the 2nd oldest house on the Hill for a time. No heat! Only an oven and a fireplace! We put our refridgerated perishables outside on the windowsill!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:04 am

It snowed at the beach early this morning! So everyone is happy!!

Here is a local news link. On the right is a video screen and below it you can click where it says "Snow Flurries" if you are interested.

http://www.cfnews13.com/Weather/Default.aspx

FairhavenGuy · Post by **FairhavenGuy** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:10 pm

HA!

Sorry, Kat, but after all the Floridians gloating about their balmy weather, it's nice to see it got a little frosty there.

It was 9 degrees here this morning. . .

And the furnace wasn't working in my office today. I've been wearing a coat all morning. The furnace guy left about 15 minutes ago. So now, just after noon, the temp is 52 degrees indoors.

Yooper · Post by **Yooper** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:36 pm

You really ought to consider moving from that frozen hell, Kat!!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:01 pm

I hate to admit it, but I let my fuel oil run low and so had no heat last night. Stupid! I had a quilt, 2 blankets and slept in a long-sleeved shirt and sweater!

I thought our little snow flurries would cheer you guys!!