Portions of the Sunshine State are expected to see temperatures dip to the low 20s overnight on Friday and into Saturday morning.
Unusually cold temperatures in central Florida have led to winter weather advisories, while Alaska has experienced some rare warm weather this month.
The National Weather Service has issued extreme cold warnings, cold weather advisories and freeze warnings for Florida.
Expect temperatures to get warmer during the days through the weekend, but overnight lows will still be freezing for most of North and Central Florida.
North Florida got to enjoy record-breaking snowfall and everyone else got a blast of wintry air from Winter Storm Enzo. When do the freezing temps end?
“North winds 25 to 30 knots with gusts up to 45 knots. Seas 7 to 10 feet, occasionally to 13 feet,” the NWS marine forecast from Fernandina Beach south to St. Augustine said. “Intracoastal waters very rough. Showers. Freezing rain after midnight.”
The cold weather pushed the City of West Palm Beach to cancel the popular Clematis by Night event with temperatures dropping to 54 degrees by 9 p.m. Thursday.
There's a very slight chance that the very northern tips of a few Florida Panhandle counties could see a wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow.
As a cold front moves through South Florida, the coldest temperature in Palm Beach County is typically between 2 and 8 a.m. This shelter opens at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24.
Records provided by the Florida Climate Center in Tallahassee highlight the 15 lowest temperatures ever recorded in SW FL.
Clouds and light rainfall expected Thursday into Friday in South Florida from the frontal system lingering just offshore over the Atlantic, said Robert Molleda, the National Weather Service in Miami’s weather coordination meteorologist. That front will move east on Friday as the colder air swoops in.
The rare winter storm that hit the southern U.S. dumped significant amounts of snow on areas that usually get none.