{"id":139988,"date":"2026-02-01T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139988\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:26:07","slug":"wind-chill-temps-state-wide-dip-below-freezing-statewide-as-arctic-blast-hits-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139988\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind chill temps state-wide dip below freezing statewide as Arctic blast hits Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 It isn\u2019t just “Florida cold”\u2014it\u2019s historic. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2014and the shivering isn\u2019t over yet, with sub-freezing temperatures expected to hold their grip until Tuesday on the Treasure Coast and in Palm Beach County.<\/p>\n

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Minimum Apparent Temperature map for Miami\/South Florida (NWS Miami)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. That event remains the gold standard for Florida freezes, representing the coldest 12-day period the region had seen since at least 1940.<\/p>\n

Coldest temperatures on record in West Palm Beach since 1888, according to the National Weather Service<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 It isn\u2019t just “Florida cold”\u2014it\u2019s historic. An Arctic blast has officially turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-139988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139988","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=139988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}