Floridians brace for extreme polar cold front after urgent freeze warning is issued to these cities

A almighty acold beforehand is acceptable to bring freezing temperatures to parts of Florida, peculiarly the bluish region.

Forecasters foretell the season's archetypal frost volition make overnight connected Sunday, with temperatures on the I-10 corridor expected to plunge to oregon beneath freezing, Newsweek reports.

Northern Florida volition bear the brunt of the acold snap, with cities similar Jacksonville, Pensacola, Tallahassee, and Lake City experiencing temperatures beneath 32°F.

Marianna successful Jackson County is forecast to consciousness the coldest, with temperatures dropping to a bone-chilling 24 degrees connected Monday morning, according to the Florida Division of Emergency Management.

Elsewhere, Panama City volition consciousness similar 25 degrees, portion Crestview, Perry, Tallahassee, Lake City, Apalachicola, Graceville, Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Horseshoe Beach volition spot temperatures ranging betwixt 27 degrees and 30 degrees.

As temperatures drop, a frost informing is expected to beryllium issued for respective locations on the I-10 corridor from Sunday nighttime into Monday morning.

According to the National Weather Service (NWS), frost warnings are issued erstwhile temperatures are forecast to dip beneath 32 degrees for respective hours wrong the adjacent 24 hours. 

During a frost warning, residents are advised to bring plants indoors and instrumentality steps to support plumbing from freezing.

By the extremity of the archetypal week of December, temperatures are expected to rebound to seasonal norms, reaching the mid- to precocious 70s, according to Orlando TV presumption WKMG.

Meanwhile, the NWS Climate Prediction Center has cautioned astir a imaginable 'hard freeze' impacting the Southeast, including bluish Florida, aboriginal adjacent week. 

The halfway urged residents to support susceptible vegetation and reminded travelers heading southbound to battalion jackets, sharing the proposal connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter.

A hard frost informing is issued erstwhile temperatures are expected to autumn beneath 28 degrees for astatine slightest 3 hours. Such events hap astir erstwhile each decennary successful agrarian areas of interior South Florida and are adjacent little communal successful coastal metropolitan regions.

Parts of Florida saw temperatures driblet into the 30s past weekend, reaching arsenic acold southbound arsenic Lake Okeechobee, according to meteorologist Jeff Berardelli from Tampa's WFLA. The NWS notes that frost tin signifier erstwhile temperatures scope betwixt 33°F and 36°F.

'It's a testament to the power of adust air, wide skies and airy winds. Radiational cooling,' Berardelli said connected X.

Meanwhile, wintertime upwind warnings are successful effect crossed aggregate occidental states, with snowfall expected successful parts of California.

'The acold blast volition consciousness similar January and volition present a important daze to hundreds of millions of radical who whitethorn person gotten utilized to lukewarm conditions during overmuch of the autumn,' said Paul Pastelok, AccuWeather's pb long-range meteorologist.

Florida-based meteorologist Ryan Maue added connected X that astir two-thirds of the U.S. colonisation volition acquisition 'freezing oregon colder' temperatures this weekend.