The weather in Florida has been so cold, iguanas are falling from trees. People are selling their meat.
Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service in Miami issued an unusual warning about cold-stunned iguanas falling from trees across South Florida."Verification of the @NWSMiami warning," tweeted Eric Blake, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist, who included a photo of a stunned lizard on Virginia Key, Florida."That boy ain't going nowhere ... young one couldn't take it .
"Mango season may be months away, but if you live in South Florida today, your trees may be ripe for the picking – of iguanas," according to the Herald, which published the headline"Tacos, anyone? Iguanas are falling from trees, and people are selling the meat online."The temperature in Miami dropped to a nippy 40 degrees Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service, and the wind chill was in the mid-30s.
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