Winter’s not over yet: Another cold front could be on the way toward South Florida next week, this time with wind-chill temperatures potentially dropping to the mid-40s.
The National Weather Service said another cold front could hit the region, along with gusty winds, making Monday and Tuesday morning quite chilly. Temperatures will start to cool Sunday night, with lows in the low 50s.
“There’s pretty strong likelihood that you’re to have another push of chilly air in South Florida early next week,” said Accuweather meteorologist Bob Larson. “A nor’easter will push a cold front southward across the peninsula Sunday evening. Once that front passes, all the chilly air rushes in behind it.”
This is the same dynamic that caused the record-breaking cold on Feb. 1. “It won’t be to the magnitude of what you had a couple of weeks back,” Larson said.
Monday’s high, despite sun, will be in the 60s, according to the National Weather Service, and Monday overnight lows will be in the upper 40s on the coast and mid-40s inland.
Wind chills could bring the “feels-like” temperatures down to the mid- to low 40s across most of the region.
WFLA-TV’s chief meteorologist Jeff Berardelli is calling for wind chills in the low 40s in South Florida early Tuesday.
National Weather Service meteorologist George Rizzuto said that they expected a low pressure area off the east coast that would send a cold front through the Florida peninsula Monday and Tuesday.
Monday night the wind will be 10 mph to 15 mph, gusting as high as 20 mph.
The coldest hours will be early Tuesday morning, Rizzuto said. The tentative forecast calls for lows early Tuesday in the lower 50s to upper 40s along the coast, and down into upper 30s near Lake Okeechobee.
The wind will continue into Tuesday, driving wind-chill temperatures early Tuesday morning as low as 46 in Miami, 44 in Fort Lauderdale and 43 along the coast in Palm Beach County.
Wind chills on the western side of Lake Okeechobee could be as low as 34 degrees, he said. “This may be one last hurrah for winter.”