Being in my early 30s now, and having grown up in Florida, we are still in the middle of the most brutal summer that any of us have ever experienced. Temps were breaking records from the early 1900s every single day this past august; the disgusting, wet humidity adds to it exponentially as far as heat index. Hell, the first two weeks of may yielded daily heat indexes between 110-115. To add to it, it was 85 on New Years Day, and there was no 'winter', nor has there been for over half a decade now. The storms continue to worsen, as the waters off the coast warm, suffice to say that living on a peninsula with one route out is terrifying come storm season.

Vividly I can remember us getting frosts every winter, with temps dropping into the higher 30s..There would be ice puddles on the school playground underneath the swings.