Warming shelters for the homeless are open as Florida experiences its coldest weather this winter

The 19 degree Fahrenheit (minus 7.2 Celsius) temperature overnight at Tallahassee International Airport may have made the Sunshine State feel like Green Bay, Wisconsin, but it stopped short of the record 16 F (minus 8.9 C) almost a century ago, according to Mark Wool, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Tallahassee. There was even more un-Florida-like weather predicted for the weekend with the National Weather Service putting the chances for snow in the Panhandle early Sunday at between 20% to 30%. The snow was predicted to be less than an inch (3.5 centimeters) in the western Panhandle but not expected to impact travel due to a short duration and an expected quick rise in temperatures afterwards, Wool said.