Four weeks of winter, you say? Yes, that is pretty accurate for us Floridians.
Living in a state like Florida, which tends to have mild winter weather, is a plus for many people. Maybe you haven't realized it yet yourself, though. We thought it might be fun to come up with a list of reasons why everyone should appreciate living somewhere that only has four weeks of winter.
Here we go...
- Our average low temperature during the coldest months of the year is around 60 degrees. For many northerners, that's still "shorts weather".
- Our average high temperature during the coldest months of the year is in the 80s, which makes it "shorts weather" for us!
- You never have to put on a down jacket or wool coat, let alone buy one in the first place.
- When you do wear a jacket, it's usually being peeled off by lunchtime anyway.
- You can eat an entire ice cream cone, outside, without it melting from the heat, and still not be as cold as your Michigan relatives as they walk from their front door to their car door in the morning.
- Speaking of cars before work in the morning... You don't need to own an ice scraper, and if you ever did need one, your credit card will probably work just fine.
- If you're a parent, you will never have to worry about bundling your kids up to the point of them looking like the little brother from "A Christmas Story".
- You also won't ever have to worry about a pile of wet clothes, socks, boots, jackets, mittens, scarves (the list goes on and on)... piling up by your front door.
- You can visit the beach year-round and can even find kids swimming in pools long after the hot days of summer are behind us.
- The theme park lines are a 5-minute wait in the winter, compared to the 140-minute wait you'll find in June and July.
- The only salt you'll find on the roads here in Florida is from the beach.
- Publix subs (better known to some as "Pub subs"). Okay, so you can get these year-round in Florida, but the fact that you can order their delicious Holiday Sub during our "winter" months makes them that much better.
- The only kind of Vitamin C you need when you catch that winter bug is straight off an orange tree in your backyard. (Winter is peak season for citrus!)
- Your winter attire still consists of flip flops, shorts, and tank tops. When you do pull out your boots and scarves, it's probably for fashion, not function.
- You own a set of jet skis instead of snow skis.
- You can work on your tan all year long rather than faking it at the tanning bed.
- And the most important reason... You get to shovel sand instead of snow! No one wants to shovel snow. Ever.
If those don't do the trick, we don't know what would. We may be a little biased, but we think living in Florida is the best all year long (and George Washington would have thought so, too!). The minimal weeks of winter we have here is just icing on the cake.
