nPostednon February 18, 2016
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nWhennit comes to hatred, I’m against it!
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nButnthis silly “holiday” isn’t really about hatred. People who arensuffering in bitterly cold weather right about now might lovenFlorida, might long to live in Florida (or at least spend a weeknthere, to thaw out), might even envy Florida with a bitterness equalnto their own bitter weather in, say, Minnesota or Montana…
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nAndnwhy is this? Because Florida is the warmest state in the U.S.!
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nOfncourse, we are talking about state-wide average temperatures. Floridanand many other southern states have made the top-10 list of warmestnstates. And did you already guess that Hawaii is on the list, asnwell?
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nButnthe tropical islands of Hawaii are not #1 on the list! Instead, thenwarmest state, talking average temperatures over the course of thenentire year, is Florida!
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nSonthen you get weather maps that look like this:
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nAndnall the people “enjoying” high temperatures of 1 degree…ornmaybe even minus 16 degrees!…have to see warm, cozy Florida downnthere at the bottom of their weather map screens…day in and daynout!
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nWhatnwinter?
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nAsnI sit writing this post, here in Southern California—deep intonFebruary, still very much in winter—I thought about the fact thatntoday we enjoyed a high of 90 degrees, and even now at 8:00 p.m., itnis 73 degrees. Warm days and super nice evenings—and it’s been thisnway all week. So I got to wondering where California is on the top-10nlist of warmest states.
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nAndnI discovered that California didn’t make the top 10!
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nWell,nno duh! California is a really large state. And we have high snowynmountains and a desert that is THE HOTTEST place in the U.S., in thensummer, and we have foggy Northern California coasts as well as sunnynSo Cal…So naturally the average temperatures are not going to be asnhigh as a smaller state like Hawaii.
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nItnturns out that California is #8 warmest U.S. state in the winter, butnnot in the top-10 in either the summer or in the year-round list. Andnthat’s one reason that I love Southern California!
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nHere’snthe complete list of the warmest states:
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nFlorida
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nMississippi
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nAndnthis is what Southern California often looks like, even in thenwinter:
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nAlsonon this date:
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Auto designer Enzo Ferrari’s birthday
Auto designer Enzo Ferrari’s birthday
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nPlutonDay
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nCownMilked While Flying in an Airplane Day
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nIndependence Day in Gambia
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nStained-glassnartist Louis Comfort Tiffany’s birthday
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nAnniversarynof the invention of the modern vacuum
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nPlannahead:
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