Bubbler knows this a whole lot better than me, but I've made a couple of dozen trips to Florida and the northern tier-Penisula seems like a different world than the rest of the state. You have to get further south into Florida to get into what you probably envision Florida being like.
It wasn't until I was a teenager when I realized that it snows in parts of Arizona and California. I thought of those states as sunny and warm (hot) all the time.