ORLANDO, Fla. – The new year is coming in C-O-L-D in Florida!
And the cold weather is not going away any time soon.
The first cold front reached Florida earlier this week, with temperatures and especially the humidity dropping.
A frost advisory is in effect for portions of Marion County from 3-9 a.m. Friday.
By the first weekend of the New Year, we’re looking at pretty cold temperatures to start the day and only “warming” into the upper 50s to low 60s on Saturday.
We will get a bit of a reprieve from the cold temperatures, but more cold blasts are on the way!
There’s been a ton of chatter across social media. If you use Instagram, TikTok, X, or even follow occasional weather updates on YouTube, you’ve probably heard talk about a blast of Arctic air forecast to come out of Canada.
Millions will experience temps well below freezing, and many will also receive snow.
Florida will get in on the Arctic action as well. Temperatures will plummet when the first major winter system that’s expected to drag that dense but shallow layer of arctic air south. This will likely get going around Jan. 6.
From there, the cold air will rapidly begin to settle in. Our neighbors in the Panhandle will likely experience freezing temperatures. Now, where things really ramp up is when you factor in how windy it will be. Arctic air is much drier, and more dense than your traditional polar air that we see flow through our Central Florida viewing area during the winter time.
Combine that with a fairly robust low pressure system, that’s going to force-feed it to us into early next week, and your wind chill is going to be absolutely disgusting. Temperatures will feel WELL-BELOW freezing, with feels-like temps in the LOW TEENS trying to extend their reach just to the north of the Florida-Georgia state line.
We’ll have to see if it gets cold enough in South Florida to knock iguanas out of trees.
There’s a lot to cover over the next week to 10 days, so be sure to stick with your Pinpoint Weather Team for updates as we get closer to the first extreme cooldown of the new year.
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