Orlando AM Weather Forecast: Chilly temps arrive this weekend

You might have bright blue skies, but you're going to have seriously cold temperatures. We're talking more than a sweater tomorrow morning. That's right. Tomorrow. This is a progressive cold front. We've been talking about just, I think a lot of people, you know, when you hear there's like a chance for a flurry of snow, but you said there's going to be a foot. Honestly, I'm getting a lot of people saying, you know, hey. It's not as cold as you said it was going to be. We're having a transition day. The forecast low is 59, and that's what I think we're going to be at by daybreak. So you don't need to bring the pipes inside and wrap the pipes? No, don't. In fact, apparently people were saying, should I wrap the pipes? That's the thing. People were saying, should we wrap the pipes? No, it's not going to be that cold. We're going to be in the 40s tomorrow. No salt down on the road is what you're saying? No salt on the road. We're on the same page here. Yeah, we're just saying, you know. We've got this. No clouds are going to be out overnight. Be ready for it. After this last January, we had that. Freeze on the 25th of January, got down to 25. I think we're still a little bit, you know, sensitive. Right. But anyway, real quick on the Vulcan launch, there's a 90% chance for a go for that launch. Weather should not be an issue. It's 58 in Ocala right now. The front is moving through. We're progressively dropping. Temperature's around 60 by daybreak. Struggling to get out of the 60s and becoming breezy today. And then it gets really cold tonight with 40s for lows on our Saturday morning. Highs tomorrow. We'll barely reach the low 60s in a lot of spots. We'll be in the 50s for most of the day tomorrow. It will be a big change tomorrow. So the front's now moving through South Florida. You can see that band of storms in the Bahamas, and temperatures will start to respond. This is all thanks, by the way, to a big nor'easter up in New England and upstate New York, raining right now in Boston, but it's really, really snowing around Mount Snow in Vermont and also in upstate New York. Here's a live view in Utica. You can see those flakes flying. Up there in the upstate. All right, let's take a look outside here locally. Not that cold. 53 Gainesville, 64 Orlando. Temperatures in Orlando have dropped six degrees since three in the morning. So it's been about a three degree drop per hour. And we've got two more hours of cooling to go. So we could conceivably dip down to 58 or 59 in Orlando for morning lows. But I think it'll probably be close to 60. But up in North Florida, we're in the 40s right now in Jacksonville. Much cooler there. And meanwhile, in the 70s in Miami as the front progresses southward. And winds right now are out of the north, northwest, about 10 to 15 miles an hour. So it'll feel a little bit breezy. Air will be moving. At the bus stop this morning, we'll see about 60 degrees and then 70 by 3. It's really going to be a pleasant day. But if you're wearing a sweatshirt, it'll be even more pleasant for you. If you're wearing a t-shirt and shorts, you may find it a little bit cool. But I want to give you the hour by hour here, getting you out the door on this Friday the 13th. Thank you. It's an unlucky day. It's funny. We were talking about how this is the coldest air since St. Patrick's Day, one of the luckiest days, and now we're going to get into the coldest air ever. On Friday the 13th, rolling in, that's one of the most unlucky days, right? It's kind of funny how that works. Anyway, 60 at 6, 65 at 10, and cooler conditions overall. Yeah, that goes way back to the King of France in, like, the early 1300s. I think it was, like, 1308, where they ordered the arrest of the Knights Templars. And so from there on, Friday the 13th was considered an unlucky day. They became too politically influential, I guess, in France. Anyway, that's history. Let's talk about the future. 59 degrees at 7 a.m. in Orlando. Then we're going to see temperatures warming to about 72 by this afternoon. We'll be in the 60s most of the day, then dipping back into the 60s by your commute time. And by dinnertime, we'll be in the 50s. And then overnight, we're going to cool down to about 46 in Orlando, 41 in Ocala. Saturday morning will be chilly with the wind blowing. And then through the day, we're going to be in the 50s all morning, topping out about 64 by 3 in the afternoon. and then we're back down to the 40s. Right now in Lake Mary it is 64 degrees and the temperature is starting to drop. Northwest wind about 10 miles per hour so the temperature in Lake Mary is now starting to fall and ultimately we're going to see temperatures on Sunday morning even cooler in places like Gainesville and Ocala where we're going to check in around 38 to 40 for lows. Ultimately the departure from normal for our Our temperatures over the next couple A couple of days this weekend will be ranging about 15 degrees below normal. And so that is significant. And when we do see 40s tomorrow morning, that will be the first time in over 200 days. It's got to go back eight months. By the way, looking ahead to next week, a busy pattern. We're going to have some showers, especially favoring the Atlantic coast as we head through the middle and end of next week. Thank you. The temperatures will start to moderate as we get back to that flow from the Atlantic, but we've just got this cool weekend ahead. 65 degrees for tomorrow's high, and then we're back to 80 by the middle of next week with about a 30% to 40% chance for rain.