{"id":122372,"date":"2026-01-17T23:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122372\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:35:22","slug":"has-it-ever-snowed-in-orlando-before-heres-what-the-records-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/122372\/","title":{"rendered":"Has it ever snowed in Orlando before? Here&#8217;s what the records say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Temperatures will plunge to below or near freezing in parts of Orlando and Central Florida from Thursday night into Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A freeze warning has been issued for Friday, 1 a.m. &#8211; 9 a.m., due to temperatures forecast to be in the 20s and 30s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A second cold front on Sunday could bring snow to parts of northern Florida. Has it ever snowed in Orlando? See what the records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A cold front has moved across the state, dropping temperatures overnight into the 20s and 30s, below freezing in several spots due to the wind chill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nearly all of northern and central Florida is under a freeze warning from 1 a.m. &#8211; 9 a.m. on Friday. People are encouraged to check on those most vulnerable \u2013 elderly adults, the unhoused or homeless, pets, as well as plants and pipes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A second cold front arrives on Sunday and could bring some flurries and snowfall to parts of Florida \u2013 yes, northern Florida, near the Georgia state line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If it happens, it would mark back-to-back years of rare snowfall in Florida. In January 2025, parts of northern Florida saw more than a dusting of snow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/will-snow-florida-when-where-how-likely-heres-what-we-know\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Will it snow in Florida? When, where and how likely? Here&#039;s what we know;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Will it snow in Florida? When, where and how likely? Here&#8217;s what we know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida cold: County-by-county forecast, timeline, impactsSnowfall in Orlando: Has it ever happened?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Records dating back to the 1800s show very little \u2013 trace \u2013 amounts of snow accumulation in Orlando. At Orlando International Airport (MCO), the official snowfall record is 0.0 inches.<\/p>\n<p>February 1899<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Historical accounts note trace snow or sleet reported in the Orlando area. Temperatures plunged that date into the low 20s, including in Orlando, according to records.<\/p>\n<p>January 19, 1977<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A trace to a coating (&lt;.25 accumulation=&#8221;&#8221; airport=&#8221;&#8221; as=&#8221;&#8221; at=&#8221;&#8221; however=&#8221;&#8221; in=&#8221;&#8221; market.=&#8221;&#8221; no=&#8221;&#8221; official=&#8221;&#8221; orlando=&#8221;&#8221; recorded=&#8221;&#8221; reported=&#8221;&#8221; snowfall=&#8221;&#8221; the=&#8221;&#8221; typically=&#8221;&#8221; used=&#8221;&#8221; was=&#8221;&#8221; weather=&#8221;&#8221;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>March 13, 1993<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Unofficial reports of a wintry mix of rain, sleet, snow as Super Storm 1993 (a powerful nor&#8217;easter) rolled up the East Coast. No official snowfall reported at Orlando airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story was written with information from the FOX 35 Storm Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Temperatures will plunge to below or near freezing in parts of Orlando and Central Florida from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,25086,139,141,3847,140],"class_list":["post-122372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida","tag-northern-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-international-airport","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}