While Florida did not see snow like the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and the southern part of Virginia, it saw record low temperatures, with the mercury touching -4C in Orlando, the lowest recorded in February since at least 1923. Typically, at this time of year, the temperature ranges between daily lows of 12C and highs of 23C.<\/p>\n
Florida\u2019s WPLG 10 TV network, based in Miami, reported that it was \u201craining iguanas\u201d as the cold-blooded reptiles fall from trees when the temperature gets too low.<\/p>\n
Videos posted on social media showed the stunned creatures on footpaths after falling from trees in southern parts of the state.<\/p>\n
Jessica Kilgore, who runs a service called Iguana Solutions that removes invasive species, told WPLG 10, she has collected many of the lizards, both alive and dead, during the cold snap.<\/p>\n
Florida\u2019s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission issued an executive order, seen by AFP, allowing people to transport iguanas – which run wild in the state but can\u2019t be owned without a permit – to commission offices.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service predicted that heavy snows would taper off in the Carolinas today but forecast high winds to spread up the east coast of the US as an intense cyclone \u201cslides out to sea\u201d.<\/p>\n
Stein said that the highway running through North Carolina\u2019s Outer Banks – a sliver of land filled with beach homes that juts out from the Atlantic coast – saw over wash from the ocean due to heavy winds and high tides and could take a while to reopen.<\/p>\n
The weekend storm forced more than 800 flight cancellations at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, a major hub for American Airlines, data from the tracker FlightAware showed.<\/p>\n
About 158,000 customers remained without power, mostly in the south, according to poweroutage.us, with Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida and Louisiana hardest hit.<\/p>\n
-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Florida did not see snow like the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and the southern part of Virginia,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[8239,22509,806,151163,26952,151161,8604,12413,4509,8278,28157,31533,2837,3592,15248,2147,71,2964,6559,2959,146142,151162,78,151164,11692,111,139,69,147,6633,544,171,9939,20247,38666,1361,223,1865,3946,10419,3040,4506,4998,151165,406,18980],"class_list":["post-264725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-american","tag-areas","tag-as","tag-balmy","tag-blasted","tag-carolinas","tag-caused","tag-chaos","tag-cold","tag-conditions","tag-dropped","tag-dumping","tag-during","tag-fall","tag-falls","tag-florida","tag-from","tag-half","tag-heavy","tag-high","tag-icy","tag-iguanas","tag-in","tag-metre","tag-nearly","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-snow","tag-some","tag-southern","tag-states","tag-stunned","tag-temperatures","tag-that","tag-the","tag-today","tag-traffic","tag-trees","tag-us","tag-usually","tag-weather","tag-whipping","tag-wildlife","tag-winds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}