{"id":140411,"date":"2026-02-02T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140411\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:01:07","slug":"rare-snow-flurries-sprinkle-southwest-florida-amid-freeze-warning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140411\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Snow Flurries Sprinkle Southwest Florida Amid Freeze Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rare snow flurries appeared in southwestern Florida as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CityofSarasota\/status\/2017691608179773659\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:freezing temperatures;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">freezing temperatures<\/a> gripped the state early Sunday morning, February 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage captured by Bryan Maxwell shows snow flurries in North Fort Myers on early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe had some very light snow flurries here in North Fort Myers on and off from about 3 am to 7 am. This video was taken at 5:35 am,\u201d Maxwell <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bryan_maxw46284\/status\/2018118752827592867\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service (NWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSTampaBay\/status\/2018109727775867296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reported<\/a> various instances of winter precipitation along the west coast of the state, issuing a <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/showsigwx.php?warnzone=FLZ265&amp;warncounty=FLC071&amp;firewxzone=FLZ265&amp;local_place1=2%20Miles%20NE%20Lochmoor%20Waterway%20Estates%20FL&amp;product1=Freeze+Warning&amp;lat=26.6673&amp;lon=-81.8871\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Freeze Warning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Freeze Warning<\/a> as temperatures dipped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTemperatures today will only warm into the 40s and 50s. Tonight the lows are back in the 20s and 30s. Stay warm out there,\u201d the NWS <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSTampaBay\/status\/2017927802981384562\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>. Credit: Bryan Maxwell via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare snow flurries appeared in southwestern Florida as freezing temperatures gripped the state early Sunday morning, February 1.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68238,28,30,29,27141,24983,2072,9303,66577,68239],"class_list":{"0":"post-140411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-bryan-maxwell","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-freeze-warning","13":"tag-freezing-temperatures","14":"tag-national-weather-service","15":"tag-north-fort-myers","16":"tag-snow-flurries","17":"tag-southwestern-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140411","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=140411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}