The threatening squall line that swept across the state on Tuesday and brought tornadoes to North Florida did not result in any twisters in South Florida, said the National Weather Service, but there’s a nasty arctic blast following it.
Meanwhile, a front will approach from the south, bringing some weather Thursday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Barry Baxter.
“I don’t want to call it a warm front,” Baxter said. “But it’s acting like one. It’s going to bring back some moisture. Not severe.” Baxter said that as a result, there’s a 20% chance of scattered showers and a bit of thunder on Thursday afternoon, especially in the interior.
The arctic blast moving down from Canada will bring tundra-like conditions to the central and eastern U.S. over the weekend. Temperatures at the Dolphins-Chiefs wildcard game in Kansas City on Saturday night will be dropping below zero and Tallahassee will get as cold as 34 degrees.
But the blast won’t reach South Florida.
“It’s going to get stopped to the north of us,” Baxter said. “We’re expecting another low pressure to develop in the northern Gulf and move northeast toward the mid-Atlantic. So that’s going to inhibit that cold from coming down,” he said.
“We’ll be a bit cooler,” said Baxter of the weekend weather for South Florida. “But we’re not going to be freezing like everyone else.”
There will be a 20-30% chance of rain Friday night and Saturday, with daytime temperatures along the coast in the lower- to mid-70s during the day, and dropping to the low 60s at night.
Sunday will be drier but still cloudy and gusty, with winds up to 21 mph and daytime temperatures in the mid-70s.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be breezy and partly cloudy with a 20% chance of showers, and warm up to near 80 degrees.
