Florida Freeze Damage Palm Banana Tree’s Snow Possible

January 8, 2010 – Florida awoke once again to frosty lawns and impressive cold freezing temperatures for the 6-7th day in a row. Many residents raced each evening to cover sensitive plants and tree’s if at all possible to help avoid losing their tropical vegetation from freeze and frost damage. When driving around this morning, you can already see freeze damage to yards, including Banana and Palm tree’s. St. Augustine lawns, and sensitive tropical flowers are also wilting and turning brown. Several nights of these wintry conditions is starting to take it’s toll in some regions of Southern Florida.

Many locations in South and Central Florida over the last several days have experienced temperatures in the lower to mid 30’s for several hours, and further inland away from the coastal sections, temps fell into the upper 20’s. Now there’s more cold weather on the way for tonight after a brief warm up today. There is also some mall chances of maybe some mixed frozen precipitation (drizzle / snow flurries / sleet) late tonight and early Saturday along east-central, FL. For this to happen many factors need to be in place, and it’s still a little early to see if this will pan out. However, it’s happened before, and most recently in 2003 and 2006. It will be interesting to see what happens overnight with the possibility of flurries. I will be watching the radar closely and temperatures for any snow picture and video opportunities. Weird to say…

So, the freezing weather is returning once again starting late tonight, and is expected to last into the first part of next week. Many low temperature records are being broken, and looks to continue for several more nights.

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