I'm new to heat pumps and live in sunny fla. Where the temp is now below 30 degrees. Darn, I was going to go to the beach today... my outside condenser unit is freezing up on 2 out of 4 sides. Like a layer of frost covering it. Is this normal? I thought the heat pump cycles to prevent this. Should I "defrost ' it with a hose?

No,, call out the techs,, needs serviced,, I wouldn`t run it till checked out,, switch tstat to emergency heat