Florida winter traditionally modulates between warm and wet or dry and cold. The beauty of this pattern shelters subtropical plants by wetting the ground before a cold front moves in. The warmth of the earth is more easily conducted by wet soil, and sensitive plants are less likely to freeze.
Occasionally we get an aberrant weather system moving through. Farther north, they expect it may come some years and call it blackberry winter, or Indian summer. This week, we have had a cool grey system sitting on top of us for days. People began to comment after a couple of days.
"I hate this rain!"
"Well, don't move to England."
"It's like Ohio!"
"And Nashville."
The early X Files were filmed in Vancouver for the light. We have had the same light in north central Florida this week, and everyone noticed. Seasonal affective disorder strikes all over the country, but it seems people in Florida are more likely to comment on two days without sunshine in a row.
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