{"id":140020,"date":"2026-02-01T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140020\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:00:10","slug":"snow-in-southwest-florida-flurries-fell-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140020\/","title":{"rendered":"SNOW IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: Flurries fell overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Southwest Florida woke up to a winter blast Sunday morning, complete with a rare sight in the area \u2014 snow flurries.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this viewer video of snow falling in East Lehigh Acres:<\/p>\n<p>Snow in East Lehigh<\/p>\n<p>Early Sunday morning on the coast, winds were strong on Nokomis Beach, where gusts reached as high as 50 mph along the coastline. A cold weather advisory was issued for coastal counties, including Charlotte County.<\/p>\n<p>One Fox 4 viewer sent in this picture of an icicle hanging from her home in Lehigh Acres. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1769983210_151_.jpeg\" alt=\"Icicle in Lehigh Acres\"  width=\"960\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dakota Smith<\/p>\n<p>        An icicle hanging from a home in Lehigh Acres during the cold weather on Sunday morning<\/p>\n<p>Click here to see the snow falling in Bradenton:<\/p>\n<p>Bradenton Flurries<\/p>\n<p>And there were even flurries as far south as Cape Coral:<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral Flurries<\/p>\n<p>In Nokomis, temperatures dropped to the upper 30s, but with the strong overnight winds, it felt like the 20s. Just a couple minutes inland, snow flurries were falling \u2014 small but there was snow in Southwest Florida!<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors captured the rare weather on camera. Linnette Ortiz in Fort Myers said she was in shock when she saw flurries around 7:30 Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p>Fox 4 Community Correspondent Victoria Quevedo spent the overnight hours on the search for falling show. Click here to see what she found:<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Florida experiences snow flurries in winter blast<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Southwest Florida woke up to a winter blast Sunday morning, complete with a rare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[68124,209,211,210,68123,853,68129,68130,65849,68125,68126,68127,68128],"class_list":["post-140020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-bradenton-flurries","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-snow","tag-charlotte-county","tag-cold-weather-advisory-florida","tag-east-lehigh","tag-florida-snow-flurries","tag-fort-myers-weather","tag-nokomis-beach-weather","tag-southwest-florida-snow","tag-tampa-bay-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140020","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=140020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}