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Florida freeze: Arctic chill reaches Sunshine State, breaking records
Orlando, Tampa and Miami each recorded their coldest temperatures successful 16 years this weekend. Many places crossed Florida began Monday greeting beneath freezing for the seventh consecutive time for the archetypal clip since 2001. The uncommon acold drawback volition past successful the Sunshine State done Tuesday earlier temperatures yet lukewarm up by midweek.
ORLANDO, Fla. – The wrath of this winter play managed to reach sunny Florida this weekend. The arctic aerial that has gripped overmuch of the eastbound U.S. surged south, mounting astatine slightest 15 record-low temperatures crossed the Sunshine State.
Record debased temperatures acceptable Monday, Feb. 2, 2026.
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The acold persisted statewide Monday, with Melbourne plunging to 25 degrees, topping the grounds for the coldest February time that was acceptable conscionable a time before.
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Arctic aerial besides strained Florida's electrical grid arsenic Floridians rushed to crank up the heat. Some 20,000 customers remained without powerfulness crossed the authorities aboriginal Monday, according to PowerOutage.us — down from 25,000 reported Sunday.
Florida Power and Light, the state's largest utility, said crews worked passim the nighttime to reconstruct power, adding that its grid was performing "well" during Monday's cold conditions.
Florida Power and Light, the state's largest utility, said crews worked passim the nighttime to reconstruct power, adding that its grid was performing "well" during Monday's acold conditions.
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On Sunday, Duke Energy asked Florida customers to trim their powerfulness usage betwixt 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. Monday morning.
Tampa Electric released an infographic of champion practices for acold upwind heating connected its societal media pages Monday.
Tampa dropped to 28 degrees Sunday, its coldest time since 2010 — a twelvemonth that featured 2 of Florida's astir infamous acold snaps.
The acold was adjacent accompanied by immoderate uncommon snowflakes successful the Tampa Bay country aboriginal Sunday.
Both Miami and Fort Lauderdale plummeted to 35 degrees, portion Orlando got down to 25 degrees Sunday — each the coldest days connected grounds since that historical 2010 acold snap.
Meanwhile, Daytona Beach acceptable a caller grounds for coldest February time Sunday, falling to 23 degrees.
Both Miami and Fort Lauderdale plummeted to 35 degrees, portion Orlando got down to 25 degrees Sunday — each the coldest days connected grounds since that historical 2010 acold snap.
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On Monday, Jacksonville registered its seventh consecutive greeting beneath freezing, tying streaks from 2001, 1981, 1975, 1958 and 1901 — a grounds that could autumn Tuesday, arsenic the arctic chill is forecast to instrumentality astir for different day.
The polar plunge besides cold-stunned iguanas crossed South Florida. Many of the cold-blooded lizards were recovered frozen connected the crushed arsenic the frigid temperatures prevented galore of the invasive taxon from hanging onto their treetop perches.
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A cold-stunned iguana connected the crushed successful North Bay VIllage, Florida connected Feb. 1, 2026.
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Cold Weather Alerts stay crossed Central and South Florida done Tuesday morning.
The superior culprit for this acold wintertime crossed the eastbound U.S. is the polar vortex, a wide of aerial usually locked implicit the North Pole.
Part of the polar vortex has been displaced implicit Canada. According to NOAA, disruptions successful the polar vortex volition usher successful much frigid aerial crossed the state implicit the adjacent 2 weeks.
Jacksonville, Florida forecast.
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Fortunately for Florida, the South volition beryllium 1 of the fewer parts of the state capable to bask a midweek warm-up.
Temperatures are expected to instrumentality to the 60s and 70s by precocious Wednesday, arsenic winds displacement to bring warmer aerial from the Gulf crossed the region.
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