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Orlando weather: Temperatures expected to plunge early Tuesday morning

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Updated  January 6, 2025 8:23pm EST
Weather Forecast
FOX 35 Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. - A cold front passes through the region and temperatures will begin to tank overnight with one of the coldest-feeling nights of the entire winter.

Tuesday will be sharply cooler, with highs running about 20 degrees cooler. Wind chills from the 20s to the low 30s in all locations in the morning, with afternoon highs only reaching the upper 50s, which is about 15 degrees below normal. At night, it'll be cool in the mid to upper 30s through midweek, resulting in some frost north, but it will be too warm for a freeze in Orlando.

Extended Forecast

As we head toward the late week, dry weather continues with a slow warming trend back to the 60s. Then, on Saturday a second cold front approaches, bringing a 60% chance for rain (likely) for the first day of the weekend.

Sunday will be much brighter but colder once again. Highs will be near 70 on Saturday and only in the 50s on Sunday with total sunshine to close out the weekend.

Sunday should dry out nicely. It's the Disney Marathon weekend, so Saturday's rain may impact the half-marathon. 

Florida dodges the Polar Vortex

The only constant in the weather is change, and the feared and much-talked-about "polar vortex" will miss us, swinging east toward Greenland, instead of diving into the southeast.

A weaker "lobe" of this upper-level core of arctic cold is impacting the eastern 2/3rds of the US this week – including Florida – but it won't be nearly as intense as originally anticipated. This means Orlando will not even see a freeze this week, despite highs only reaching the 50s midweek.

Gainesville and Ocala will likely catch a frost/freeze a few nights this week, but Interstate 4 south and east will stay above freezing (at this time.)

Temperatures will trend cooler and become more mild as we move into the weekend.

We may see a few similar incursions of highly modified (warmer) arctic air through the 3rd week of January, with several days when we only reach the 50s, but this will no longer be the potentially record-breaking and historic cold we were originally seeing as potential.

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