All right, if you are stepping out the door in
the Florida panhandle right now, the wind chill
isn't just uncomfortable. Oh, not at all. It
is sitting in the single digits. If you're in
Tampa, you are waking up to a freeze watch that
threatens to wipe out the winter guarding you
just planted. And if you are in Miami, you're
about to realize that that light denim jacket
you keep for emergencies. Yeah, that one. It
is not going to cut it today. This isn't just
a cold front. It's a wake up call. Welcome to
Meteorology Matters, the podcast that dives deep
into the science, chaos, and stories behind the
weather that shapes our world. This show was
created by meteorologist Rob Jones. Now, let's
get into today's episode of Meteorology Matters.
So here we are. It is Monday, January 26th, 2026.
And I know a lot of you listening are probably
huddled around a space heater right now, maybe
scratching your heads because let's be honest.
Oh, absolutely. Just 48 hours ago, we were talking
about record breaking heat. We were looking at
beach days. Yeah. And now the entire atmospheric
script has just completely flipped. It is a classic
meteorological whiplash. Yeah. I mean, it's the
kind of thing that really defines Florida winters,
but. but this specific event has some teeth to
it that we really haven't seen in a little while.
Great. This isn't just the standard, you know,
put on a sweater for the morning commute situation.
No. This is a setup that demands some respect.
Whiplash is exactly the right word. We went from
like, let's go to the beach to cover the plants
in the blink of an eye. So, before we get into
the history books... And folks, we have some
incredible history to cover today. Oh, we do.
From snow in Miami to the freeze that literally
changed the map of Florida. Let's talk about
right now what is happening outside our windows
this morning. Because to the average person,
it just looks sunny. That is the deception, isn't
it? The mechanics of this are their textbook,
but they're aggressive. Early this morning, a
very, very strong cold front pushed through the
entire peninsula. The whole thing. The whole
thing. It's sweeping off the southeast coast
as we speak, and it's just clearing out all the
humidity and the clouds. And when we say cold
front, We're not just talking about a little
wind shift or a slight drop in the dew point.
This is something else entirely. No, no. This
is a total air mass change. You are literally
replacing a maritime tropical air mass, you know,
that warm, sticky stuff we love. Right. Our standard
Florida air. With a continental polar air mass.
Yeah. And behind this front, we have this dense,
heavy layer of Arctic air that's just filtering
in. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
or NOAA as we call it, they've been tracking
this high pressure system settling in right behind
the front. Okay, let's unpack that because I
think high pressure is one of those terms we
hear on the evening news all the time. All the
time. But we rarely stop to think about the physics
of it. Usually when we see that big blue H on
the weather map, we think nice weather, we think
picnics. Exactly, and that is the trap in winter.
In the summer, High pressure is absolutely your
friend. It suppresses hurricanes. It keeps the
rain away. But in January, that high pressure
system is essentially a massive sinking column
of air. And as that air sinks, it warms slightly
and it dries out, which is what wipes out the
cloud cover. It just scrubs the sky completely
clean. So we lose our blanket. That's really
the best way I can visualize it. We lose our
insulation. Yeah. Think of clouds as a thick
down duvet cover for the earth. During the day,
the sun heats the ground, that's shortwave radiation
coming in, the concrete, the grass, the ocean,
it all absorbs that heat. But at night, the ground
tries to send that heat back out into space as
longwave radiation. And water vapor clouds, they're
really, really good at trapping that long wave
radiation. They act like a ceiling. They are
excellent at it. They bounce that heat right
back down to us. And that's why a cloudy night
in winter can feel relatively mild, you know?
Sure. But this week, that Arctic air mass is
bone dry. the dew points are crashing down into
the teens. There's no water vapor, there are
no clouds, there's nothing to stop that heat
from just escaping. It's essentially an open
door to outer space. So the moment the sun sets,
the temperature isn't just dropping gradually,
it's literally free -falling. We call it ideal
radiational cooling. And because the air is so
dry, there's no floor to stop that drop until
you hit that dew point, which like I said is
way down in the 20s. That dryness is something
I saw in the discussion from the National Weather
Service in Tampa. They mentioned humidity dropping
below critical levels. And this brings up a secondary
hazard that I don't think people associate with
freezing cold. That's right. We are actually
looking at a fire weather context here, too.
In the middle of a freeze. In the middle of a
freeze. When the air gets this dry, and we're
talking relative humidity plummeting into the
20, 30 % range, it acts like a sponge. It just
sucks the moisture right out of all the vegetation.
The dead grass, the pine needles, the scrub.
It all becomes tinder. Instant tinder. So even
though it's freezing, the fire risk actually
goes up. I mean, that's just a cruel irony, isn't
it? You're shivering, but you have to worry about
wildfires. It is. And it feels colder on your
skin, too. We always talk about dry heat, right?
Sure. But dry cold is its own kind of beast.
your body moisture evaporates much faster in
this dry air, which cools your skin very rapidly.
That's why 40 degrees in a dry air mass feels
so much sharper and more biting than 40 degrees
in a damp one. Now, the other thing that really
stands out to me about this particular setup
for January 2026 is the duration. Yes. Usually,
Florida cold snaps are like bad house guests.
They show up, make you uncomfortable for a day,
drink all your coffee, and then they leave. Right.
A hit and run cold front. This is not that. Now,
looking at the extended forecast, this looks
more like a siege. It's a prolonged event. The
National Weather Service is being very explicit
about this, that this isn't a one and done scenario.
at a synoptic pattern, a really large scale atmospheric
setup that is going to lock in this cold air
all week long. All week. We're talking about
hard freeze chances every single night through
Wednesday or even Thursday for the northern parts
of the state. And freezing temperatures are going
to persist well into the week, even for central
areas. So do not put the plants back out tomorrow
morning. I feel like that is the classic mistake
people make. The biggest mistake. They uncover
everything on Tuesday thinking the worst is over
and then Wednesday morning hits them even harder.
Absolutely not. Keep them covered. This is a
multi -day grind. The atmosphere is just sluggish
right now that high pressure isn't going anywhere
fast. Okay, let's take a virtual tour of the
state because Florida is such a long peninsula
and the experience is going to vary wildly depending
on your latitude. I want to make sure everyone
listening knows exactly what they are facing
in their own backyard. Let's start up in the
Panhandle the Freezer, as I'm calling it today.
Tallahassee, Panama City. Chuckles. That's a
good name for it. I mean, driving along I -10
right now must feel like driving through the
Midwest. It is brutal. And dangerous is the word
we really need to use. We aren't just talking
about discomfort up there. The National Weather
Service in Tallahassee has issued an extreme
cold warning and a hard freeze warning. And the
numbers absolutely back that up. I was looking
at the data points for Tallahassee for tonight,
Monday night. We are dropping to 24 degrees Fahrenheit.
24 degrees. And you have to remember, that is
the air temperature measured at five feet off
the ground in a sheltered box. Right. That's
the official number. When you factor in the wind,
which is coming in from the Northwest, it's advecting
or transporting that cold air in the wind chills
are ranging from nine degrees to 20 degrees.
Single digit wind chills in Florida. That is
physically painful. It really is. I want to talk
about wind chill for a second, because some people
think it's kind of a made up metric. But there's
real physics there, isn't there? It is very real
thermodynamics. Your body generates heat, right?
And it creates this thin little layer of warm
air right next to your skin. It's like an invisible
force field of warmth. When the wind blows, it
just strips that layer away. It's gone. So your
body has to work overtime to generate new heat
to replace it. And the faster the wind, the faster
that heat loss happens. So when they say the
wind chill is nine degrees. It means your body
is losing heat. at the same rate it would if
it were actually nine degrees outside with no
wind. Which means hypothermia isn't just a risk,
it's a probability if you aren't prepared. It
is life -threatening for those without shelter.
Yeah. Absolutely. And the NWS Kalahasi office
put out a very specific reminder about the four
P's. I love a good mnemonic device. It helps
the information stick when you're panicked, you
know. Let's hear it. People, pets, plants, and
pipes. Okay. You need to check on... people,
especially elderly or anyone without adequate
heating. Bring the pets inside. If you're cold,
they're cold. It's that simple. Right. Cover
or bring in your sensitive plants. Right. And
the last one, pipes, is the one that causes the
most expensive damage. Let's drill down on the
pipes for a second. Why do pipes actually burst?
I think people assume the ice just blocks the
pipe and cracks it from the inside, but it's
more about pressure, isn't it? Exactly. As the
water freezes inside the pipe, it expands. We
all know that. But the burst usually doesn't
happen right where the ice is. The ice creates
a blockage and the water pressure builds up between
that ice blockage and the closed faucet. Ah,
it's trapped. It's trapped. That pressure has
nowhere to go and eventually it just ruptures
the pipe. That's why letting a faucet drip is
so effective. It relieves that pressure. It gives
it an escape valve. It relieves that pressure
buildup. It's such a good reminder. We often
forget about pipes in Florida because we just
don't deal with this duration of cold very often.
A few hours of freezing. The pipes are usually
insulated enough by the ground warmth, but 24
degrees for eight hours straight. That penetrates
the walls. Yeah. The duration allows the cold
to soak deep into the infrastructure. Now, let's
slide down I -75 into central Florida and the
Tampa Bay area. This is what I'm calling the
danger zone, and mainly because people here are
even less prepared than the folks in the panhandle.
That's a fair assessment. Up north, they at least
have fireplaces. In Tampa, we have Linnae. Ah,
it chuckles. That's right. The architecture changes
as you go south, doesn't it? We build our homes
to release heat, not to trap it. and the data
shows exactly why they need to be on alert. We
have freeze watches and warnings extending deep
into the peninsula. I saw Brooksville is forecast
to plummet to 25 degrees. I mean, that is a hard
freeze. Yes, and even Tampa proper is looking
at 36 degrees, with inline areas of Pasco and
Hillsborough counties facing those hard freezing
conditions. And this is where topography really,
really matters. If you live in a low -lying area,
Cold air is dense. It sinks. It flows like water.
It flows like water into the valleys and depressions.
So while the airport might officially read 36,
your backyard in Little Valley could easily be
30. And it's interesting, the forecast discussion
from Tampa mentioned that the showers are ending
early this morning, Monday. So the story transitions
so rapidly from, is it going to rain, to just
pure cold? Correct. The rain is the leading edge.
But the real story is the air mass behind it.
The one saving grace for Central Florida, according
to that forecast discussion, is that the winds
are expected to stay below 15 mph. So not quite
the howling gales of a blizzard, but still. Still,
10 to 15 miles per hour at 30 degrees cuts right
through you. Oh, yeah. And for agriculture, for
the strawberry farmers in Plant City, for the
remaining citrus groves, these temperatures are
absolutely critical. Let's talk about the strawberries
for just a second. If you drive past those fields
tonight, you might see them spraying water on
the plants, which seems completely insane. You're
spraying water and freezing temperatures, but
there's some incredible science there, too. It
is a brilliant application of physics. It's called
the heat of fusion. As water turns from a liquid
to solid ice, it actually releases latent heat
energy. It releases heat. It does. So farmers
spray the plants to encase the berries in a layer
of ice. As long as that water is continuously
freezing, the temperature inside that little
ice cocoon stays right at 32 degrees. Wow. It
won't drop below that. So the ice acts as a heater.
In a way, yes, it acts as a shield against the
much colder sub -freezing air, keeping the plant
tissue just warm enough to survive. But you have
to keep the water on. But it requires constant
water. If the water stops, the evaporative cooling
takes over and the crop is lost in minutes. It's
a high stakes game. And even moving further south,
you know, usually we say South Florida, you're
fine. But looking at Miami and Naples, you are
not escaping this pattern. No, the chill goes
all the way to the Keys. Miami will see some
light rain lingering through Monday afternoon,
which will keep the temperature suppressed. And
then that dry air takes over. Now, we aren't
seeing a freeze in downtown Miami. The urban
heat island effect and the proximity to the warm
ocean helps there. Right. But we are looking
at temperatures dropping into the 40s. Which
for a Miami resident requires breaking out the
heavy goat. That's true winter. It's definitively
heater weather compared to the norm. And similar
to the north, the duration matters. It's going
to be chilly for days, not just for a few hours.
You know, when we talk about cold in Florida,
there is always this sense of... Has this happened
before? We have such short memories. We do. We
only remember the beach days. But looking at
the history books, Florida has a really, really
wild relationship with cold weather. And there's
one date that I think every Floridian either
remembers or has heard their grandparents talk
about. January 19, 1977. the day it snowed in
Miami. It is the headline event of Florida weather
history. It's legendary. It sounds like a myth,
doesn't it? If you didn't see the photos, you
wouldn't believe it actually happened. But let's
unpack the meteorological story of 1977 because
there are some eerie similarities to what we
are seeing this week, even if the result isn't
quite as extreme. There are similarities in the
broad strokes for sure. In 1977, just like today,
we had a strong Arctic front move through. But
the setup then was just It was perfectly aligned
to funnel air straight from the deep Arctic.
There was a massive, incredibly strong, high
pressure system situated right over the Mississippi
River Valley. So it acted like a giant pump.
Exactly. We call it meridional flow. Instead
of the jet stream moving west to east, it took
this massive dive south. It pumped that frigid
air all the way down the spine of the continent.
Yeah. And what made 1977 so unique was that there
was an upper level trough a dip in the atmosphere's
pressure high up in the sky that brought a band
of clouds and precipitation right along with
that cold air. Which is the opposite of what's
happening now. The exact opposite. Usually, like
we just discussed, the cold air brings clear
skies. In 77, the moisture and the cold arrived
together. And that collision created. Well, it
created magic. I've read the accounts of people
stopping their cars on I -95. It was chaos. Beautiful
chaos, but chaos. People were stopping on the
highway, getting out of their cars just to look
up at the sky. I mean, you have to remember,
many of these people had never seen snow in their
entire lives. They didn't know what it was. They
didn't. In fact, initial reports show that people
were calling the police thinking there was a
chemical fire nearby and ash was falling from
the sky. Wow. They couldn't process that it was
snow. The visuals are just incredible. I saw
a picture from the Miami Herald archives showing
a headline that just said snow in Miami in these
giant letters. It was a souvenir edition. And
for good reason, we are talking about snow flurries
being reported as far south as Homestead. Homestead.
That is practically the tropics. I mean, that's
as far south as you can get. It is the southernmost
snow record in the contiguous United States.
It happened at the Homestead Air Force Base.
And here is a fact that always, always blows
my mind. Go on. Freeport, Bahamas, reported mixed
rain and snow. The Bahamas? You're kidding me.
The Bahamas. It is the only known snowfall in
their 358 -year recorded history. That is insane.
That is how powerful and how deep that 1977 cold
wave was. It pushed the temperature zone deep
into the subtropics. And the temperature in Miami
that day, what was the high? The high temperature,
the high for the day was only 47 degrees Fahrenheit.
That is just miserable. But of course, while
we look back on it with a sense of nostalgia
and wonder, oh, the day the palm trees turned
white. At the time, it wasn't just fun flakes.
It was an absolute disaster. It was an economic
catastrophe. We have to remember Florida is the
winter salad bowl for the entire East Coast.
When you drop temperatures that low, things die.
The numbers are just spaggering. In 1977 currency,
the damage was estimated at two billion dollars.
Two billion. If you adjust that for inflation
today, it's astronomical. They lost 35 percent
of the citrus crop. They lost 95 percent of the
vegetables. 95 percent. That means if you were
a vegetable farmer in Dade County, you were wiped
out. Your entire year was gone. Completely wiped
out. And the political context of this is fascinating,
too. This happened on January 19th. The very
next day, January 20th, 1977, Jimmy Carter was
inaugurated as president. So his first day on
the gop. One of his first actions was declaring
a disaster area for 35 Florida counties. Wow.
Imagine that being your introduction to the Oval
Office. But he was a peanut farmer from Georgia.
He understood agriculture. He knew exactly what
that freeze meant for the livelihoods of thousands
of people. It really highlights how vulnerable
the state is, doesn't it? We build our lives
here assuming a tropical climate and then nature
just reminds us that the continent is right there
to the north, waiting to spill over. We aren't
an island, no matter how much we sometimes feel
like one. That connects perfectly to the why
of this week's weather. We are attached to North
America. When the gates open up north, when that
Arctic oscillation goes negative, there is nothing
geographically to stop that air from sliding
down the plains and hitting us. There are no
mountains. No mountain ranges running east -west
to block it. It's a straight shot. Now, 1977
was the snow event. But if we want to talk about
the grind, that feeling of coal that just won't
go away, which is what we are forecasting for
this week in 2026, we really need to look at
January 2010. January 2010 is the best modern
comparison for duration. 1977 was a sharp, violent
shock. 2010 was a marathon. I remember that winter.
It felt like it lasted forever. I distinctly
remember seeing iguanas falling out of trees
on the news. That became a global news story,
the frozen iguanas. But biologically, that happens
because they are cold blooded. When the temps
drop into the 40s, their bodies just shut down,
they lose their grip and they fall. But beyond
the reptiles, 2010 was a 12 -day cold snap. For
us meteorologists, the consistency was the story.
We saw this blocking pattern in the atmosphere,
likely a Greenland block, that just kept the
cold air flowing. I was looking at the data for
West Palm Beach from that event. It is unbelievable.
It really is. West Palm Beach had 12 straight
days with low temperatures at or below 45 degrees.
12 straight days. That broke records going all
the way back to 1940. That means for nearly two
weeks you could not go outside without a coat
in West Palm Beach. That's just... That's not
Florida. And it wasn't just the nights. The days
were cold. There were days where the highs barely
got out of the 40s or low 50s. And the consequences
of that, again, we go right back to agriculture.
Yes, 500 million dollars in crop losses in 2010.
But there's also a human toll that we absolutely
need to acknowledge. In 2010, there were fatalities
due to exposure. Right. I remember reading about
a homeless individual in Hollywood, Florida who
passed away. And it's just a tragic reminder.
When we talk about checking your neighbors or
the four P's, it's not just a slogan. In Florida,
people are not equipped for 12 days of cold.
Our homes aren't insulated for it. Like we said,
we build homes to breathe, to let heat out. People
don't own the right clothes. They don't have
the heavy clothing for it. And the homeless population
is extremely vulnerable to that prolonged exposure.
It really reinforces why this week's forecast
for 2026 is so critical. If this drags on, the
risk just accumulates. It's not about surviving
one night. No. It's about the cumulative stress
on the body and on the infrastructure. Precisely.
And just to add one more detail to 2010, it proved
that 1977 wasn't entirely unique when it comes
to precipitation. In January 2010, there were
actually reports of sleet and snow in Orlando
and Melbourne. That's right. I totally forgot
about the Space Coast getting sleet. It happens.
It's rare. But when you have that much cold air
in place for that long, all it takes is a tiny
little bit of moisture to wring out and produce
something wintry. Okay, so we've done the nostalgia
trip to the 70s. We've relived the grind of 2010.
But if we really want to understand why Florida
looks the way it does today, I mean why the oranges
are where they are, we have to go way back. Way
back. We have to go to the 19th century. The
great freeze of 1894 and 1895. This is the event
that changed everything. It was a landscape change.
Yeah. Literally. Yeah. Before this winter, the
heart of the Florida citrus industry wasn't in
central or south Florida. No way. It was in north
Florida, around Jacksonville, St. Augustine,
all along the St. Johns River. That seems unimaginable
now. Growing oranges in Jacksonville, that's
almost Georgia. It was thriving. They were producing
millions of boxes of fruit. The railroads were
built specifically to haul this fruit north.
But then came the winter of 1894 -95. And it
wasn't just one freeze. It was the one -two punch
that made it so deadly. Explain that mechanism,
because this is fascinating biology. It wasn't
just the cold. It was the timing of it all. It
was a biological trap. So punch one comes in
December of 1894. A severe freeze hits. It damages
the trees, it defoliates them, strips all the
leaves off, but it doesn't kill the mature trees
outright. OK, so the trees are hurt, but they're
alive. They go into a sort of triage mode. Right.
But then, in typical Florida weather fashion,
it warms up. January comes around. It's warm
and pleasant. The trees think, OK, the danger
has passed. Time for survival mode. They start
pushing out new growth. They flush with sap.
They let their guard down. Completely. To grow
those new, tender leaves, the tree has to fill
its vascular system, the cambium layer, right
under the bark with fluid, with water and sugars.
So the tree is literally completely full of liquid.
It is gorged with sap. And then punch two arrives.
February 1895. A massive killer freeze. And because
the trees were active and full of sap, the freezing
temperatures literally split the bark from top
to bottom. It just exploded the trees. Essentially.
The sap froze, expanded, as water does when it
turns to ice, and it ruptured the trees. The
result was total devastation. Citrus production
in the state dropped from 6 million boxes to
just 100 ,000. From 6 million to 100 ,000, that
isn't a loss. That is an extinction event for
an entire industry in that region. That is why
the growers moved south. They realized North
Florida was just too risky. They packed up and
they moved to central and south Florida. The
reason you drink orange juice from Groves and
Polk or DeSoto counties today is because of that
specific winter in 1895. It shifted the economic
center of gravity of the entire state. And the
records from that time, they still stand, don't
they? They do. Orlando set its all -time record
low of 18 degrees Fahrenheit in December 1894.
We have not beaten that since. 18 degrees in
Orlando, I can't even process that number. It
puts this week's 30 degree weather into perspective,
doesn't it? It's cold, but it's not 1895 gold.
Thank goodness for that. But, you know, we don't
always have to look back to black and white photos
to find extreme weather. We have some very recent
memories that I think are going to be triggered
for our listeners this week. Absolutely. The
climate is always active. There's always something.
I'm thinking specifically about Christmas 2022.
Oh, yes. The cold Christmas. Everyone remembers
that. You were probably bundled up just opening
presents in your living room. that was officially
categorized as a significant Florida impact freeze.
It was one of the coldest holidays on record
for much of the state. And it's fresh in people's
minds. It reminds us that these Arctic outbreaks
are still very much a part of our modern climate.
It wasn't that long ago we were shivering around
the Christmas tree. And even more recently, and
this one is truly wild, we have to talk about
just last year, January 2025. Just one year ago,
January 21st and 22nd, 2025. If 1977 was the
snow in Miami headline, 2025 was the panhandle
blizzard. It really was. We saw a historic winter
storm track right along the Gulf of Mexico coast.
But unlike the dry cold we were seeing this week
in 2026, that 2025 storm had moisture wrapped
into it. It tapped into the Gulf. It tapped into
the Gulf of Mexico, yes. And the snowfall totals
were, they were legitimate. This wasn't just
flurries. They were significant. Tinscola Airport
officially recorded 8 .9 inches of snow. Nearly
9 inches of snow in Pensacola. That is a good
winter storm in Chicago. Exactly. Escambia County
saw up to 10 inches in some spots. And even Tallahassee,
the state capital, got nearly 2 inches of snow.
And that contrast is so important for understanding
meteorology, isn't it? Last year, we had the
cold and the moisture. This week, 2026, we had
the cold. But the air is bone dry. That is the
difference between a winter wonderland at a hard
damaging freeze. Yeah. The snow in 2025 actually
insulated some things. Oh, that's interesting.
Snow is a great insulator because of all the
air trapped between the flakes. The dry cold
this week, it just desiccates everything. It
zaps the life right out of the plant. So in some
ways, this dry polled can be sneakier and more
damaging to agriculture than a flashy snowstorm.
It's the silent killer of the garden. It is.
Absolutely. Before we wrap up, I want to zoom
out for a minute. Because we Floridians can get
a little self -centered with our weather. Chuckles.
Just a little bit. We think 40 degrees is the
apocalypse. But if we look at the national map
right now, the context is really important. This
is the be glad you were here section of the show.
It really is. If you look at the weather prediction
center outlook for this week, the rest of the
country is dealing with some serious winter ferocity.
So what are we seeing up north? The Northeast
is currently getting hammered. There is a major
winter storm exiting the region that is dropping
heavy wet snow. We are talking 20 plus inches
in parts of New England. 20 inches. So shoveling
out your car for hours, power outages, travel
nightmares, all of it. And then on the other
side of the country, the Pacific Northwest is
dealing with an atmospheric river. That sounds
intense. It's a fire hose of moisture from the
Pacific, and it's targeting Washington state
with heavy rain and major flooding potential.
And the middle of the country, the heartland.
The interior, sub -zero temperatures. We are
seeing actual air temperature readings below
zero in the Ohio Valley and the Northern Plains.
Not Windchill. Actual temperature. Actual air
temperature. So when we are complaining about
it being 36 degrees in Tampa... We are escaping
the ice accumulations. We are escaping the shovels.
We are escaping the sub -zero wind chills that
cause frostbite in minutes. Florida is freezing
by its own standards, but compared to the Mid
-Atlantic and the Northeast, this week we're
getting off easy. It is all about perspective,
isn't it? I'll take a sweater over a snow shovel
any day of the week. I agree with you there.
So what does this all mean for you listening
right now? It means we are in for a week that
is going to test our patience and our preparation.
This is not a drill. The cold is here, and it
is staying for dinner all week long. It is a
time to be vigilant. Watch the fire danger with
this dry air. Protect your pipes. Go out and
wrap them up. Check on your neighbors, especially
the elderly. And really respect the duration
of this event. Don't let your guard down on Wednesday
just because you survived Monday night. And hey,
document it. I want to know what your backyard
thermometer says. Take a picture, screenshot
your weather app. This is weather history in
the making, even if it's just a really cold week
for us. It's data. Yeah. And we love data. We
do love data. And if you want to keep up with
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