In large parts of the US it rarely gets much below freezing. I'm not even _that_ far south (35 degrees N lat), and the coldest month of the year has an average

In large parts of the US it rarely gets much below freezing. I'm not even _that_ far south (35 degrees N lat), and the coldest month of the year has an average daily low of 0.5C. Coldest temp ever recorded here was -20.