Cold Wednesday Morning in Florida!

22 Jan 2020, 5:31 am

From iguanas becoming immobile and falling out of trees to reports of people in flip flops and sandals, it was a very cold morning on Wednesday in Florida!

There were wind chill advisories in effect across the state as wind helped drop the feels like temperatures into the 20s and 30s from Jacksonville all the way south to Miami.

To give you an example of how cold this snap is, statistics show that with a temperature recorded at the Miami airport of 40° it is now the coldest since December 2010!

Temperatures Wednesday morning ranged across the Sunshine State from right around freezing to into the low 40s in the southern part of the state, also allowing frost and freeze alerts to be issued.

Thankfully, for our friends living and visiting what’s normally a much warmer climate, this overnight blast of cold weather was temporary as morning temperatures are expected Thursday to climb back into the 40s & 50s.

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Meredith is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist as designated by the American Meteorological Society. She was born and raised in Cleveland but has worked from coast to coast covering almost every type of weather. Meredith is a weather, space, and STEM journalist and has been live out in the field during destructive tropical storms on the Gulf Coast of Florida, raging wildfires in Southern Cali... Load Morefornia, and covered the wreckage from tornadoes in the Great Plains. In 2009, she reported on the damaging hail storm during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and in 2017, the historic California winter storms that produced record rain totals and devastating flash flooding. Prior to joining WeatherNation, Meredith worked at KEYT/KKFX in Santa Barbara, CA, KOTA-TV in Rapid City, SD, WWSB-TV in Sarasota, FL, and began her career as an intern at WGN-TV in Chicago. She was Santa Barbara's "Favorite Weathercaster of the Year" in 2016 and the Community Partner of the Year in 2017 for her volunteer work with Make-A-Wish Tri-Counties and awarded with the 2018 Valparaiso University Alumni Association First Decade Achievement Award. Meredith is the current chair of the American Meteorological Society's Station Scientist Committee, which focuses on raising greater awareness & outreach when it comes to science education for viewers. She's also an accomplished journalist, producing weather and science stories including rocket launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base and the new GOES-16 satellite and it's impacts on weather forecasting. Meredith was personally invited by NASA's Johnson Space Center to interview astronauts on the International Space Station and was the only meteorologist in the nation to do an exclusive report accompanying the GOES-West satellite from Colorado to Florida, reporting on and covering it's launch in 2018. Meredith's also worked on features that took her paragliding along the coast, white water rafting in Northern California, learning to surf in the Pacific Ocean, and how to be an aerial photographer while flying a single engine plane! Say hi on Facebook, Twitter, & LinkedIn!