{"id":166749,"date":"2026-02-24T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166749\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:35:15","slug":"freeze-warning-active-for-central-west-florida-tuesday-temperatures-to-drop-to-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166749\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeze warning active for Central West Florida Tuesday \u2013 temperatures to drop to 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Monday at 11:53 p.m. a freeze warning was issued by the National Weather Service valid for Tuesday between 3 a.m. and 9 a.m. The warning is for Coastal Levy as well as Citrus, Hernando and Lee counties.<\/p>\n<p>What to do if there is a freeze watch or warning<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Freeze warnings are issued from May to October (but can be extended if necessary), when low temperatures are expected to be 29-32 degrees. If there is a potential for temperatures to fall into these thresholds, a freeze watch may be issued a few days ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the National Weather Service, if a freeze warning or watch is issued for your area, there is little you can do to protect plants. If you can move your sensitive plants inside, do so because the freeze will likely kill them, depending on the severity of conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Source: The National Weather Service<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This automated article was produced using artificial intelligence and publicly available data. The article template was created by the Times. Got any feedback about the information contained here? Email us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/arc\/outboundfeeds\/tbtrss\/excludes\/mailto:weather-feedback@tampabay.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:weather-feedback@tampabay.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">weather-feedback@tampabay.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday at 11:53 p.m. a freeze warning was issued by the National Weather Service valid for Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67904,28,30,29,27141,26871,2072,1286],"class_list":{"0":"post-166749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-central-west-florida","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-freeze-warning","13":"tag-freeze-watch","14":"tag-national-weather-service","15":"tag-temperatures"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166749","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=166749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}