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I've made this soup 2-3 times in the past month. I live in Texas and it hasn't particularly been that cold -- maybe high-20s, low-30s as a low -- but best I can tell, it works in multiple weather environments from "super-ass cold" to "summer-y and on the porch" (in case you stumbled across this and have no idea who I am or anything, I used to live in Mi…