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1989 was our last super freeze. Winter was crazy warm in 89 and Dec of 89 was very active and cold in Tampa. Then BOOM! It was crazy warm in Jan of 90 and has been that way since minus 95-96 and 2010.
An interesting tidbit: The latest first instance of temperatures of less than 60 degrees Fahrenheit in my area occurred on October 14th, 2002. With strong model consensus on sustained temperatures and humidity matching late-July averages through at least mid October, it is almost incontrovertible that this record is soon to fall (pun not intended).
It is yet another cold-season heat record to add to the inexorably growing list that includes two consecutive record high temperatures for the month of November in 2015 and 2016, the first occurrence of a 70-degrees-or-greater daily low temperature in the winter months in December 2015, the warmest December on record in 2015, the warmest February on record in 2018, the warmest daily average temperature in February on record (concurrent with a tied all-time monthly record high), the greatest number of 90-degrees-or-greater days in September 2016, the highest overall monthly low temperature on record for September in 2018, and a heap of other, less significant records too numerous to list.
I must confess that the list of recent cold-related extrema is far more diminutive. The only monthly record to speak of in recent years is a tied 59-degree record low temperature in July 2014 (having been recorded already three times before).
Not that I mean to insinuate anything with these inconsequential minutiae, of course. Weather is as weather does.
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