A strong cold front arrives

[Robert Sobczak]

Throw another log on the fire:

This one could freeze the glades!

http://www.gohydrology.org/2012/01/hard-freeze-is-gonna-fall.html

[Kim Gass]

Maybe this year we will have timed it right..entering next Wednesday. Its going to be -10 tonight. Hot tub time! But no snow..frown.

[Daniel Madrigal]

Bye, bye skeeters!

[daniel]

yeah, i hope bye bye nothing else, though... 09 was a nightmare. 

[Robert Sobczak]

At last look they raised the nighttime low 3 degrees ... it's a moving target.  The milder than usual winter to date could factor in with plant impacts.  

[daniel]

that's good news, thanks. 09 was weeks of it, too... right? i remember 3 weeks of cold. in a row. 

[Swamp Hunter]

I hope I drained enough water out of the camper.

[Robert Sobczak]

I drained my pool just to be safe (lol)

[Kim Gass]

Mine is frozen (its a lake). Minus two now.. Winds NW at 30 gusting to 40 Very unusual for 11 pm. Hope the mangroves do not suffer.

[Juan Estevez]

What about sleeping bags? My current bag is a Kelty Lightyear rated a 40F, I have been out with temps in the mid to lower 40s and I have been comfortable. Time for a new bag? last night according to Weather Underground it was 31F at Everglades City.

[3sj8ukir9xxf9]

Lame!  Hope it doesnt kill too many snook!  

[Kim Gass]

Nope. Just get a liner. I have a Sea to Summit  Reactor Thermolite Extreme. The mfr claims to extend the range of any sleeping bag down 25 degrees. I find from experience that it extends my bag range about ten degrees. I bring a 40 F bag and pop the liner in on frost nights.

I cant believe that the Everglades has frost without me.

[daniel]

...i dunno... i was out there last year, about this time... and i was ok, but i was freezing. a guy i ran into told me he had a thermometer and one of the nights he read 36 in his tent. all i know is, i was really cold... and i was sleeping in a tent, in a bag, in all the clothes i had (and rain gear). i guess i will try a liner... how much are they typically?