{"id":139442,"date":"2026-02-01T06:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139442\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T06:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:47:01","slug":"first-ever-extreme-cold-warning-issued-for-central-florida-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139442\/","title":{"rendered":"First-ever extreme cold warning issued for Central Florida"},"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\">An extreme cold warning has been issued for nearly all of Central Florida as a stretch of dangerously cold temperatures is here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">How cold? Temperatures with the wind chill could drop as cold as 5 degrees in some spots, forecasts day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When does the coldest air arrive? The coldest air will be here on Sunday morning. However, Friday night and Saturday night will be cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Could cold records be broken? It&#8217;s possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Multiple weather alerts have been issued for Orlando and Central Florida as dangerously cold temperatures and strong winds impact the region for the next several days.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando Weather Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Extreme Cold Warning: 7 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. Sunday<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wind Advisory: 3 p.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Sunday<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Freeze Warning: 7 p.m. Sunday to 1 p.m. Sunday<\/p>\n<p>What is an extreme cold warning?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the National Weather Service, an extreme cold warning is issued when &#8220;extremely dangerous cold conditions or wind chill values are expected or occurring.&#8221; Wind chills could be a low as 8 degrees, significantly below freezing.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/72ad2e943382c60dab5d91bc9689a6c0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is the first time that an extreme cold warning has been issued in Central Florida, according to the FOX 35 Storm Team.<\/p>\n<p>Timeline: When does the cold arrive in Orlando?Friday night<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It will be cold, but not extremely cold. Temperatures expected to dip into the 40s.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There will be scattered rain and showers in the morning. By Saturday afternoon, the skies could clear, and the winds pick up. Expect wind gusts between 30-45 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Late Saturday afternoon and evening, the temperatures begin to quickly plummet. Temperatures will go from the 40s to the 30s between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Wind chills will go from 30s to the 20s between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday &#8211; Coldest temperatures are here<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Due to the wind chill, temperatures will be between 5-15 degrees on Sunday morning at 7 a.m. Afternoon highs are expected to be in the 30s and 40s.<\/p>\n<p>Could records be broken?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The record high and low for Sunday, Feb. 1 is 48 and 28 (set in 1893).<\/p>\n<p>When does the cold end?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Temperatures should begin to warm up by the end of the week \u2013 into the 70s.<\/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 An extreme cold warning has been issued for nearly all of Central Florida as a stretch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,67880,27849,67535,67881,139,141,140,16857],"class_list":{"0":"post-139442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-central-florida","9":"tag-cold-records","10":"tag-cold-temperatures","11":"tag-extreme-cold-warning","12":"tag-extremely-cold","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-headlines","15":"tag-orlando-news","16":"tag-sunday-morning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139442","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=139442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}