TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — In what looks as if a once-in-a-lifetime occasion, some components of Florida are getting ready for winter climate. The actual sort.
With freezing temperatures and a attainable snowy forecast this upcoming week in Northwest Florida, the Florida Division of Transportation is pulling out all of the stops to arrange.
“A powerful push of chilly air is on the way in which for the Sunshine State, together with Tampa Bay,” Max Defender 8 Meteorologist Eric Stone mentioned.
After a chilly entrance pushes by, temperatures drop with lows within the higher 30s to mid-40s each morning by subsequent Saturday. Highs will solely rise into the 50s all week lengthy.
Eric Stone mentioned that North Florida can be so chilly by Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning that snow is within the forecast alongside I-10 from Pensacola to east of Lake Metropolis. The rain/snow line can be nicely north of the Bay Space, so it is more likely to solely see rain on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Over the weekend, crews are getting ready bridge deck sprayers, snow plows, and different tools to maintain the state’s freeway system secure and operational, FDOT introduced.
In Panama Metropolis, the federal government launched an announcement on Saturday about “dangerously chilly situations” arriving Monday, adopted by potential snowfall on Tuesday and Wednesday. The realm expects in a single day lows to be below-freezing, even dipping into the kids.
Cities that will expertise these wintry situations are engaged on insulating uncovered pipes, and backflow preventers, in addition to attending to the wastewater remedy plans.
The Nationwide Climate Service predicts that cities in North Florida, together with Panama Metropolis, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville, will seemingly expertise freezing rain as a winter storm strikes into the Deep South.
Freeze warnings are anticipated, whereas accumulating ice and potential snow could trigger hazardous journey and widespread disruptions.
