All Iowans know of those people who move to a warmer climate and then act insanely cold when they return to Iowa. I have mocked them. "Oh, so you lived in Iowa for 30 years but after a couple of years in Florida you forgot what the weather here is like?" They claim that their bodies got used to the warmer weather and 75 degrees now requires a jacket.
Get real.
This winter in the middle east seemed quite a bit colder than the previous ones. I have no desire to become that which I mock, so I was very relieved to see that, in fact, this was a colder winter. On average December and January were 4 degrees colder than the previous years I was here. (There was a cold snap here in January 2009, but I was back in Iowa. The 45 degrees here would have seemed balmy compared to the -20 when I stepped off the plane in Iowa.) Last winter there was no cold spell.
Maybe next January I'll have to come home to get a dose of reality.
Nah, the weather is simply too fantastic here in January.
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