Fort Lauderdale, FL – South Florida woke up to unusually cold conditions Monday as Fort Lauderdale and Key West recorded their coldest temperatures ever observed on February 2nd.<\/p>\n
According to weather officials, the cold snap followed the arrival of a strong Arctic front that pushed unseasonably chilly air deep into the region overnight.<\/p>\n
Fort Lauderdale International Airport recorded a low temperature of 37 degrees early Monday morning, breaking the previous February 2 record of 38 degrees set in 1979. <\/p>\n
In Key West, temperatures dropped to 49 degrees, surpassing the prior record low of 50 degrees from 1980. <\/p>\n
Meteorologists said these readings are well below normal for early February, when overnight lows typically remain in the 60s.<\/p>\n
Miami did not break its February 2nd record but experienced unusually cold conditions as well. <\/p>\n
On Sunday, the city reached a low of 35 degrees, marking its coldest February 1st temperature in more than a decade. <\/p>\n
Weather officials noted that temperatures across much of South Florida remained 10 to 15 degrees below seasonal averages throughout the morning hours.<\/p>\n
Daytime highs on Monday struggled to rebound, with many areas only reaching the upper 50s and low 60s. <\/p>\n
Gusty north and northwest winds added to the cold feel, producing brisk conditions throughout the region.<\/p>\n
Despite the record-setting cold, forecasters said the temperatures were still far from South Florida\u2019s all-time lows, which occurred during historic cold events in the 1940s and 1970s.<\/p>\n
The forecast calls for a gradual warming trend over the coming days, with temperatures expected to return to more typical winter levels by midweek.<\/p>\n
Another cold front later in the week could bring cooler overnight lows, though not at record-breaking levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale, FL – South Florida woke up to unusually cold conditions Monday as Fort Lauderdale and Key…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[26895,6976,249,251,250,4059,2559,123,18598,807,1286,69131],"class_list":["post-142922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-cold-snap","tag-conditions","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-front","tag-key-west","tag-miami","tag-record","tag-south-florida","tag-temperatures","tag-weather-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142922","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=142922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}