Yeah, I remember those Florida summers too, and I don't miss them...each year they keep coming. 
Nice to get the arctic air like we've got right now, though! 
I saw the Tampa ice situation on the news tonight and couldn't believe it. I remember going to a small WW2 re-enactment at the Dade Masscre park in the 90s right before CHRISTmas and roasting my backside off in oppresive heat!
This year here in the Pac NW, we got a little chilly in December, but nothing like the midwest got at all. In the Puget Sound area where I live, we get a constant gulfstream type conveyor from the south pacific. Living less than 40 miles from the coast, we get a lot of rain (drizzle but East coast standards, you can be out in it all day and not get as wet as running to your car in one of those southeast dreanchers you get in the srping and fall) and some alternating breezy conditions sometimes (but mostly along the coast). We got more than our normal share of lowland snow last winter but only in the mountains this year, like is normal for winter here.
We had a record high here today, 57 degrees. Per NOAA, we're supposed to see high 40s and low 50s through the week. Lows will be in the high 30s
at the coldest and will be into the mid 40s for lows. It's rainy off and on. Heck, it was sunny the entire week of Christmas, the first time that's happened since I moved here in 1998!
