Originally Posted by B. Carfree

I'm a weather wimp, which is why I have almost always lived where the water stays liquid. (Nothing's too hot, but I don't like cold.) I previously thought Memphis was my type of place, at least as far as weather is concerned. After your comment about having cold extremities, I looked up the low temperatures and was blown away that this past January Memphis had 23 days with lows below freezing. I was relieved to see that the historic lows for January are all above freezing, so my assumption wasn't totally wrong for a "normal" year, but who's having normal weather anymore?