[boop]

This is why I don’t understand why global warming is so bad. I’d rather have 1 degree increase over a century than cold snaps that kill off orange groves. Like those that we got in the ‘70s.

[txhurl]

I remember the brownouts in florida in the early nineties, blamed on those huge heat fans they warmed the orange groves with?

[Brad from Tennessee]

The worst was in 1984-85. My brother in Leesburg lost about 100 acres. The citrus trees actually froze solid and split.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I'd rather have 1 degree increase over a century than cold snaps that kill off orange groves.

It is amazing how freezes moving further and further south have driven the oranges to south Florida. The first oranges were brought to Saint Augustine by the Spanish, and Timucuan Indians brought them south as far as the future Ocala area. The Florida citrus business started after the Civil War, centering on Ocala. The freeze of 1895 drove the center of the orange groves to the Orlando area, but it was forced further south by the freeze of 1985, so that is now near the coasts and nearly as far south as Lake Oceechobee, if only some global warming could give us orange groves in Ocala again!

[cherry]

we actually need the cold temps to kill off some insects in the winter....thats what I'm told anyway....

perfect temps for me would be between 45 and 75.