{"id":140591,"date":"2026-02-02T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140591\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:42:08","slug":"central-florida-to-warm-up-after-freezing-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140591\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida to warm up after freezing weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After a weekend of freezing temperatures, Central Florida will start to warm up this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An extreme cold warning is in effect until 10 a.m. on Monday as wind chills are expected to remain in the 20s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Conditions will improve later Monday with sunshine and rebounding temperatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Highs on Monday afternoon are forecast to reach the mid-50s following the expiration of the morning cold warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cold will return Monday night as light winds and frosty air moves back into the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Freeze warnings are in place once again, with low temperatures expected to drop into the upper 20s and low 30s in parts of Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A significant thaw is expected by the middle of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Temperatures are forecast to rise sharply, with highs reaching the 70s on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This warm period follows a series of freeze warnings that affected the area earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The warming trend will be short-lived as a weather front arrives on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This front will lower temperatures again by the end of the week, though forecasters do not expect conditions to be as cold as the weather seen over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a weekend of freezing temperatures, Central Florida will start to warm up this week. An extreme cold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[147,67535,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-140591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-central-florida","9":"tag-extreme-cold-warning","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140591","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=140591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}