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The latest forecasts spare Florida from any snow or sleet but "bitterly cold temperatures" are coming behind the front.
The NEXT Weather Team is tracking a significant arctic blast as it approaches South Florida in the course of the next few hours.
One meteorologist warned it would be a "generational cold event" with dangerously frigid weather expected in the Sunshine State.
Another big weather event in Florida is underway. But instead of a hurricane, it's freezing temperatures. Creative types are having fun with memes.
After a brief warm-up earlier in the week, a strong cold front will sweep across Florida Saturday, followed by a surge of Arctic air from the north. Behind the front, west-northwest winds could gust 35-45 mph or more Saturday afternoon and into the evening, helping to pull frigid air deep into the peninsula.
As Ocala faces unusually cold weather, residents and businesses adapt to the frigid conditions
Manatee Lagoon saw its highest number of manatees all season on Jan. 29. See photos, video of large sea cows gathering in the warm Florida water.
WPBF Channel 25 on MSN
Freeze warning issued as South Florida faces its coldest air in years
The WPBF 25 First Warning Weather team is tracking freezing temperatures Sunday morning across South Florida.
Temperatures will be dangerously cold after sunset again tonight.
Floridians are scrambling to prepare for what meteorologists are calling the coldest temperatures the state has seen in 16 years.
The Panhandle briefly awoke to sub-freezing temperatures on Saturday morning, but the worst temperatures are still ahead.