{"id":123158,"date":"2026-01-18T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:34:07","slug":"freeze-warning-issued-for-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123158\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeze warning issued for Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Another cold front will usher in Arctic air again across Central Florida. Subfreezing temperatures are expected early Monday morning for many locations, prompting a Weather Alert Day from Sunday night into Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The National Weather Service has issued freeze warnings for Sunday night through Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Freeze Warning<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Monday morning temperatures are expected not only to fall below freezing, but to remain below freezing for several hours in many areas. <\/p>\n<p>Monday morning<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Wind chills will be especially cold, dropping into the 20s across much of the region, so if you are heading out early, be sure to bundle up.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s wind chills<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">If you have not already, take steps now to protect pets, plants, and pipes. If you are cold, your pets are cold. Bring them indoors, or make sure they have a warm shelter with food and water. Sensitive and tropical plants should be brought inside if potted, or covered if left outdoors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Pipes should generally be fine, but northern counties may dealing with a hard freeze and may want to take extra precautions with exposed pipes and outdoor spigots by covering them or allowing a slow drip of water.<\/p>\n<p>Freeze &amp; Frost potential<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Here are the county-by-county impacts across the region. <\/p>\n<p>Marion CountySumter CountyFlagler CountyLake CountyOrange CountySeminole CountyVolusia CountyOsceola CountyBrevard CountyPolk County<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Looking ahead to Tuesday, it\u2019ll be another cold start with morning temperatures in the 30s and 40s, and a few locations could dip below freezing once again.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Another cold front will usher in Arctic air again across Central Florida. Subfreezing temperatures are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[147,519,28,30,29,508,22970,139,221,16981,404,4715],"class_list":{"0":"post-123158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-central-florida","9":"tag-cold","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-forecast","14":"tag-freeze","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-weather","17":"tag-weather-alert","18":"tag-weather-forecast","19":"tag-weather-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123158","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=123158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}