Christmas Eve forecast: Arctic blast brings freezing temperatures to Central Florida
FOX 35 Storm Team Meteorologist Ian Cassette has the vacation forecast.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Today’s excessive: 46 levels
Tonight’s low: 30 levels
Main weather concerns:
Frigid air stays in place all weekend lengthy trapping highs in the 40s. It will make for one of many coldest Christmas weekends ever for Central Florida. Lows fall to under freezing once more tonight regardless of extra clouds anticipated. Feels like temperatures shall be dangerously cold once more Christmas morning.
Freeze Warnings shall be in impact once more Sunday morning so protect those plants! According to the US National Weather Service in Melbourne, Orlando may see the coldest Christmas since 1983 when the low was 21-degrees!
BEACHES:
While cold temperatures will possible deter many from getting in the water, seaside circumstances shall be tough because of astronomically excessive tides all through the weekend. Coastal flooding shall be attainable together with a excessive rip present danger.
THEME PARKS:
Don’t overlook a jacket in case you are heading to the parks this weekend! Highs will solely heat to the mid 40s in the present day and tomorrow with partly to principally cloudy skies.
OUTLOOK:
The chilly weather is predicted to final into Monday with lows again under freezing for areas north of I-4 Monday morning. Highs return to the 50s by the afternoon. A gradual warming pattern will return in the ultimate week of 2022 with highs again in the 60s Tuesday and 70s by Wednesday.
In truth, we may see highs close to 80 by Friday! Rain possibilities stay low with solely as slight bump by New Years weekend.