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Originally Posted by Nomadicus
Frost is not a given. Maybe we have 1-3 a year and then we could even get a hard freeze in November or in March. Snowbirds migrate here for a reason.
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The comment above is quite right…
Without doubt most of Florida sees very little freeze or cold weather in general. The map below (be sure to inlarge) is another interesting freeze map...showing what regions see many days with freeze and what regions see very few days with freeze. (temps that reach 32 F or lower). Most of the state of Florida sees less than 10 days a year with freeze. Florida is by far the state that experiences the least freezing weather.
The interior Western and North Central United States is home to the “freeze belt “ in the USA…
Most places north of the desert southwest see more 150 days a year with freeze. Large parts of 15 western states see more than 150 days with freeze. Parts of North Dakota and northern Minnesota see roughly half the year with freeze (180 days). Incredibly, parts of the high elevations in the West see over 210 days with freeze. The West Coast is far better…much of southern/central California experiences less than 60 days with freeze (although parts of the higher elevations of extreme eastern California/Sierra Nevada ranges are among the coldest places in the United States)…while much of western Oregon and western Washington State see less than 90 days with freeze, with places on the immediate coast seeing less than 30 days with freeze. Only the Pacific coastal regions like San Diego, LA, and San Francisco have less than 10 days a year with freeze.
By comparison…the Eastern United States (Great Lakes eastward) is rather wimpy when it come to days with freeze…
Far northwestern Maine and far northern Michigan have two patches of more than 180 days with freeze. Only parts of northern Wisconsin, northern Michigan, the higher elevations in Pennsylvania, northern New York, north central Massachusetts, and Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine - see more than 150-days with freeze. Most places in the Eastern United States from the southern Ohio Valley (southern Indiana/Ohio), east to the Atlantic coast in southern Rhode Island see less than 120 days a year with freeze. Unlike the Western USA…almost everywhere south of 40 latitude in the Eastern US sees less than 120 days with freeze. Along the Atlantic coastal plain from Long Island southward…less than 90 days on average will see a freeze…while from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina southward only 10 to 30 days a year will have a freeze. The entire Gulf Coast (Corpus Christi, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, and Tampa) only sees freeze about 5 days a year…less than the Pacific Coast around San Diego/LA. Most of the southern half of the Florida peninsula might see freeze 1 day a year (although some years may pass without a freeze in parts of coastal south Florida). There is no report of freeze in than last 241 years in Key West, Florida – the southern most city on the US mainland.
So if you are fleeing the freeze in the United States…head to Florida, the Gulf Coast, and the immediate West Coast.
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As much as I like cool weather I'm okay with keeping the mercury above 32 in the south. 
