We got a pretty good cold spell down in SE Texas, nothing higher than 40 yesterday, today, maybe a bit warmer, but lows in the freezing mark. Kind of overcast all day yesterday too, though I see sun right now today. Crap is blowing in from Colorado, or out west somewhere, places like AMARILLO up in the panhandle is ridiculous. It's colder there right now than in New England. Something like low in around 5 degrees and high's in the teens.
Got a bit under the weather on my days off, and I too was fantasizing about a trip to the Yucatan or the Mexican Pacific coast for a warm up. Vacation days are very slim, must wait till at least the first of the year to recupe some vacation time. The good news is that cold WXR in SE Texas is short lived, as in it draws back until the next blue northern comes again.