The coldest temperatures South Florida has felt in two years swept through the Peninsula early Thursday, dropping the mercury to a biting 45 degrees in West Palm Beach with a wind chill that made it feel like the upper 30s.
While the 45-degree temperature wasn’t cold enough to break the record low for Jan. 9, which was 31 degrees set in 1956, it was 13 degrees below normal and the lowest measurement since January 2023. That month saw three days with temperatures ranging from 40 to 43 degrees.
National Weather Service meteorologists in Miami said Thursday’s high temperature isn’t expected to climb out of the 60s but it will begin to warm up with Friday morning’s low temperature staying in the 50s and climbing into the low 70s during the day.
Saturday will see a more radical warm-up with the daytime high hitting 80 degrees, before another cool down next week.
Kimberly Miller is a journalist for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA Today Network of Florida. She covers real estate, weather, and the environment. Subscribe to The Dirt for a weekly real estate roundup. If you have news tips, please send them to kmiller@pbpost.com. Help support our local journalism, subscribe today.
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