When it’s freezing across most of the Greater 48, the New York-based national media outlets look for any excuse to come to Florida…even if it’s to cover a story on cold weather. As evidence, you couldn’t turn on the television over the past week without seeing some fluffy fleece pullover-packing talking head sensationalizing the recent cold weather in Florida. They stood in citrus groves marveling at baby icicles, they drove our highways chasing the elusive Sunshine State snowflake, and they even predicted a reptilian event of almost Biblical proportions: frozen iguanas falling from the skies. Now here’s the post-freeze reality in32963: orange juice futures are up slightly so expect to pay a little more for your Tropicana this winter, the aerial lizard invasion never materialized and, most importantly, warm weather and sunny skies have returned.  In fact, the long-range forecast in32963 is outstanding: low temperatures moving back into the 50°-60° range and high temperatures consistently in the 70’s with a few 80° days mixed in for good measure. (15-day forecast Chart). So is that the end of cold weather this year in32963? Of course not, but unlike the Midwest and the Northeast, our future cold bouts won’t involve inches of snow falling from the sky. Now frozen lizards…that’s another issue entirely.