ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Our good friend the groundhog predicted an extra six weeks of winter. <\/p>\n
I want to let you know, it might be a struggle to get Florida to play along. <\/p>\n
Our recent expansive pattern shift across North America is a sign we\u2019re hitting a point between winter and spring, called \u201ctransition season.\u201d <\/p>\n
Albeit flattened out, ridging will remain over the eastern halves of the nation for another 2-3 weeks (Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n
[EXCLUSIVE: Become a News 6 Insider (it\u2019s FREE)<\/a> | PINIT! Share your photos<\/a>] <\/p>\n This is when our atmosphere begins to feel the change in our orbit around the sun and our natural tilt in the axis of our planet starts to warm up different parts of the globe. <\/p>\n For those who may not know, that\u2019s what creates our seasons. Quite literally, just where we are in space and where the sun hits the Earth the greatest. Then, the weather simply responds to this difference in heating. <\/p>\n When we start to see warm features absolutely dominate the southern United States, that\u2019s a telltale sign of the changing times. <\/p>\n Usually right about now is when that begins to happen. Pending what\u2019s going on in localized corners of the world, this is when the jet stream starts to shrink back and retreat northward into Canada and closer to the poles. <\/p>\n The warmth remains and dominates our local area out to the end of February<\/p>\n We\u2019re starting to see more and more instances of warmer, subtropical air battling back against the wintry tundra that kicked off the month of February. <\/p>\n Our computer models suggest we\u2019ll be in above-average temperatures through the rest of this month. There were subtle hints of more cooler air coming down to meet us in Florida end of the month, but that has since retrograded towards a warmer solution. <\/p>\n This is not to say the rest of the country won\u2019t see snowfall here and there, and freezing temperatures come down. That\u2019s the nature of the beast. Where there\u2019s uneven heating on Earth\u2019s surface (which is everywhere), you\u2019ll see bouts of cold air pushing against the warmth. <\/p>\n The latest long-range guidance from a few of our trustworthy computer models show average if not ABOVE average temps lasting through the month (European Center For Medium Range Forecasting)<\/p>\n The individual teleconnections we monitor to forecast when we\u2019ll see cold or warm spells all point toward warm for us Floridians. <\/p>\n The arctic oscillation is a huge driving factor for what the Polar Vortex could be doing over the next couple of weeks. The data shows we\u2019ll be looking at disruptions of the vortex, but nothing breaking it down altogether like when Florida froze over Feb. 1. <\/p>\n A few others, like the Pacific North American oscillation which I lean on a lot during the hurricane season, keep us in the negative phase. Your key takeaway there is negative means warm, positive usually means cold. <\/p>\n For the time being, as I continue to monitor trends, it appears the winter may reload for a final push come early March. <\/p>\n February, however, will feel very \u201cFlorida,\u201d with daytime and nighttime temperatures ebbing and flowing between average for the time of year and above average with high pressure ridging overhead. <\/p>\n Daily Forecast<\/p>\n The News 6 Weather team ensures you’re always on top of the day’s weather.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Our good friend the groundhog predicted an extra six weeks of winter. 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