It was probably just on scatted spots because most of the coconuts that far south had little or no damage. I hope they recover!

Parts of so Florida took a major besting, while others look great. High 20s were seen in areas away from the water I'm sure.

Looks like the low was 34 in Doral on 1/11, so most likely the frost nipped those cocos. If it was anything like up here, the lows were not bad (bottomed at 29), but frost was murder this year.

You might want to read my post of Feb. 26 :"Just back from Florida................damage report".

There was a wide variation of browning within a fairly small area of Florida. Proximity to the ocean made quite a difference, as did a few miles north or south.

Doral is a bit North and East from where I am. What I've seen in S. FL, as far as coconuts, is there are some areas where they are totally fried and further south they at least have burned lower fronds with tip burn on the upper leaflets. I have seen none completely unscathed except by the extreme coastal locations.

Some of the damaged palms are Veitchia, Latania, Bottle palms, Licuala grandis (all other varieties of Licuala did well though), and of course...Cyrtostachys. Many others with less damage such as burned leaf tips.

Banana trees, crotons, Philodendron are burned completely. Tropical trees such as Tabs, Bulnesia, Geiger and so forth are all defoliated but not terribly damaged.

Then there are the vegetable row crops like tomatoes and such that suffered badly.

That being said, as you drive around it doesn't look like a bomb went off or something that drastic but when looking closely there is a lot of damage noticeable. I think Doral on TV probably was mostly a concentration of coconuts (heavily damaged in that area) so the decline looks worse.

I have not seen it this bad since 1995. This winter might of killed more palms than I have ever seen before in my area. Ugly is an understatement.

It was almost ironic for me. I have three coconuts that I was thinking about sending dowm to the West Palm Area because my company has an office down there. My co-worker would have had to bring them in basically all winter. We send trucks down there all of the time so I could have securely boxed them up and sent down last fall. I'm glad i didn't. They've done fine in south facing windows with heat mats keeping their soil temp in the 70s.