Tampa Bay knows how to do Halloween as good as anyone.
ZooTampa at Lowry Park, Busch Gardens and the Tampa Riverwalk, for example, make great family Halloween fun every year. However, more often than not, it doesn’t feel very much like Halloween with temperatures, typically, still in the 80s. This year, we’ll be in the 80s through 9 p.m. Now that’s scary!
While my carved pumpkin is wilting in the heat, I decided to look into our weather history books to find our coolest Halloween.
Back in 1993, we saw a powerful cold front move into the region, with falling temperatures that afternoon into the low 60s by 4 p.m. We fell into the low 50s that Halloween evening with gusty winds, too. That’s nearly 30 years ago, but they had to be excited about the costumes they could wear that night. A fuzzy lion or a werewolf. Anything covered in hair. You might need the carbs in your candy just to stay warm, as temperatures likely tumbled into the 50s that Halloween evening.
The year 1993 also was the coldest Halloween overnight in Tampa history. Yes, I used the word cold. The low temperature that night plummeted all the way to 38 degrees by the next morning. That’s not too far off of a normal Halloween night in Chicago, right here in Tampa.
Imagine a chill in the air tonight around Tampa Bay -- handing out fun-size candy bars to shivering little kids. Now that I think about it, taking my kids out trick or treating in the 80s this evening, in my shorts and T-shirt, sounds pretty good. Soon, I’ll be putting on my sunblock and hat to go outside and put up our family’s Christmas lights.
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