WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — It isn’t just “Florida cold”—it’s historic.
An Arctic blast has officially turned the Treasure Coast into a frozen frontier, shattering decades-old records and sending rare flurries drifting over communities in Port St. Lucie and Vero Beach Saturday night.
With wind chill accounted for, outside of the Florida Keys, there was not a single city in Florida that didn’t dip below freezing this weekend—and the shivering isn’t over yet, with sub-freezing temperatures expected to hold their grip until Tuesday on the Treasure Coast and in Palm Beach County.
Minimum Apparent Temperature map for Miami/South Florida (NWS Miami)
Subsequently, an Extreme Cold Warning continues for the Treasure Coast & Okeechobee with a Cold Weather Advisory for Palm Beach County and a Freeze Warning in effect for the entire area except for metro Palm Beach County.
Across Florida, residents are sending CBS12 pictures and videos of iguanas and lizards falling from trees, sprinklers turning plants into icicle-covered statues, and even flurries.
This level of sustained, bone-chilling cold marks the most significant Arctic event to hit Southeast Florida since the historic cold episode of January 2010. That event remains the gold standard for Florida freezes, representing the coldest 12-day period the region had seen since at least 1940.
Coldest temperatures on record in West Palm Beach since 1888, according to the National Weather Service:
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December 29, 1894: 24 FJanuary 20, 1977: 27 FDecember 25, 1989: 28 FJanuary 31, 2026: 31 FDecember 14, 2010: 32 FJanuary 30, 2022: 37 FDecember 31, 2023: 39 F