{"id":44048,"date":"2025-11-12T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44048\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:30:16","slug":"tampa-breaks-133-year-cold-record-as-temperatures-drop-to-39-degrees-1290-wjno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44048\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Breaks 133-Year Cold Record as Temperatures Drop to 39 Degrees | 1290 WJNO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa, FL – Tampa experienced its coldest November 11th on record Tuesday morning after temperatures dropped to 39 degrees Fahrenheit around 6 a.m., surpassing the previous record low of 40 degrees set in 1892. <\/p>\n

The National Weather Service reported that the rare chill marked the coldest air mass of the season so far, caused by a surge of Arctic air moving through the Southeast.<\/p>\n

Across the Tampa Bay area, temperatures dipped into the 30s and low 40s, with wind gusts making conditions feel closer to the 20s and low 30s. <\/p>\n

Tampa\u2019s \u201cfeels-like\u201d temperature was approximately 31 degrees during the early morning hours.<\/p>\n

Ryan Gorman and Dana McKay cover this story and more on The Ryan Gorman Show<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Several nearby cities also saw record-breaking lows. St. Petersburg recorded 43 degrees, breaking its 1956 record of 44.<\/p>\n

Brooksville reached 35 degrees, two degrees below its 1977 record.<\/p>\n

Lakeland hit 36 degrees, beating its 1996 record of 44, while Winter Haven also dropped to 36 degrees, surpassing the 38-degree mark from 1962.<\/p>\n

The cold snap prompted freeze warnings in parts of the region, urging residents to protect pets, plants, and exposed plumbing.<\/p>\n

Officials also reminded residents to use space heaters safely and prepare for additional chilly mornings before temperatures rebound later in the week.<\/p>\n

This marks the second major weather milestone for Tampa this year.<\/p>\n

In July, the city reached 100 degrees for the first time in history, breaking its all-time high of 99 degrees previously recorded in 1942, 1985, and 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa, FL – Tampa experienced its coldest November 11th on record Tuesday morning after temperatures dropped to 39…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20426,28899,3062,47,7154,18598,27019,199,135,137,136,1286],"class_list":["post-44048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-air","tag-air-mass","tag-brooksville","tag-fl","tag-lakeland","tag-record","tag-record-low","tag-st-petersburg","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-temperatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44048","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=44048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}