BRR

So everyone knows I hate the cold and I love the typical Tropical South Florida weather. Well the last two weeks were anything but typical weather here. For only the second time in recorded history we had snow flurries down here and it was miserable cold. Yes, it was about 30 degrees below normal. Normally we get cold for a day or two, and by cold I mean 40s at night and upper 60s to low 70s at night. Normal here is 78 in the day, 60 at night in January. Well for only the fourth time in history Miami didn't even break 50 as a daytime high last week. It was just one low front after another. Freezing temperatures at night and lots of crops lost. Stores were all sold out of space heaters, gloves, you name it. People here don't even know how to use a heater! It's actually the first time I've turned on my heater since moving here. People ask me about the weird smell when they turn it on. LOL. Yeah it's called burning dust.

Anyways I found this dead Knight Anole in my backyard yesterday. He's a lot bigger than the picture makes him look. Not quite full grown but about a foot long. It appears this thing has been living in my palm tree in my backyard. They live in the trees and never come out. Cubans call these things Chipojos.

We have a big problem here with invasive species. Marine Toads, Cuban Frogs, Burmese Pythons, Iguanas etc.... If one good thing came out of the cold it's the fact that now scientist get to finally see what they have been waiting decades for, how all these exotic animals will hold up to the cold. They have tried to trap and exterminate these animals but it's impossible for man to do. Well when it drops below 40, so do the Iguanas. Tons of dead Iguanas around South Florida right now and they are looking to see how all these other creatures held out. I've even heard stories of them trying to claw their ways into peoples homes.