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.
Temperatures plunged below freezing across parts of northern Florida on Wednesday, with some areas even dipping into the teens, making parts of the Sunshine State colder than Anchorage, Alaska. Millions of people are facing frigid temperatures through this week.
Florida residents in four locations woke to very chilly temps. It was 25 in Tallahassee at 6 a.m. By comparison, it was 41 in Anchorage, Alaska.
The rare Southern storm prompted this headline from the Anchorage Daily News: "Hey, New Orleans, please send some of your snow to Anchorage."
Unseasonably cold weather continues to grip much of the Sunshine State, so much so, it's actually colder in parts of Florida, than Alaska.
Most cold weather-related warnings had expired across the U.S., but frigid temperatures remained in place across much of Florida.
It's snowed in Florida before, but probably won't this year. Here's the coldest day ever recorded here and a list of times it snowed in Florida.
On Wednesday evening as rain fell across Anchorage, local high school cross-country ski coaches met to decide whether to hold this weekend's Lynx Loppet Invitational, a fixture of the high school ski season.
The largest populated city in Alaska is still recovering from the hurricane-force winds that battered homes and infrastructure on Sunday, leaving thousands without power.
The Gulf Coast city that rarely sees snowflakes has received more than double the snowfall that Anchorage has since Dec. 1, the start of the meteorological winter.
A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across the southern United States on Wednesday, breaking snow records and treating the region to unaccustomed perils and wintertime joy. From Texas through the Deep South,
They bent but couldn't be broken, Santa Rosa County Emergency Management team was there for residents despite facing a Florida record snowfall event.