Key West in 40s, Minor FL Citrus Crop Damage
UPDATE 1/22/09: The morning temperatures in East Central Florida fell to 16 per the NWS, 15 if you count amateur stations.
UPDATE: Here is blog reader Tom's list of readings from this morning, showing temps as low as 18. Residents of Florida woke up to a very cold morning today. How cold was it? Here's a map:
The NWS lists the coldest reading as "East Central Florida" as 23. Here's our forecast for tonight, which should be even colder.
According to NCDC the record low in Key West is 41 (although here they say it is 28, I'm almost 100% positive that is a typo); they got down to 53 this morning, though temperatures as low as the mid-40's were felt further up the Keys closer to land. We are predicting 48 tonight.
Disney World visitors woke up to 32 in Orlando; we are calling 25 for them tonight (for forecasts for more cities, put your zipcode into AccuWeather.com). One of our headlines says today:
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