The coming holiday week will see temperatures dropping each day to a low Saturday night of around 50 in Fort Lauderdale, 47 in the Palm Beaches and even cooler inland, according to the National Weather Service. Weston should see overnight lows as nippy as 46 on Saturday.
Temperatures on New Year’s Eve are similar — some forecasters have them dipping even lower while others show it a tad warmer.
Upstate, Orlando should see temperatures as low as 41 at night over the coming weekend and Tallahassee 35.
Forecasters said that Wednesday night and Thursday in South Florida should see showers, prior to cooler drier air moving in, with temperatures dropping into the upper 50s Thursday night and low 50s Friday night.
The chill comes from a series of cold fronts descending into the region.
As for which will be cooler, Saturday night or New Year’s Eve, “both are going be chilly,” said Robert Garcia with the National Weather Service in Miami. “Saturday and Sunday we’re expecting another (cold front) reinforcement … so it could be fairly chilly.”
He said it also will be breezy. The wind chill will make temperatures feel as low as the lower 40s.
“If you’re going to the Orange Bowl or one of the countdown festivities, you’re going to want to bring a jacket,” he said.
Thankfully it’s not going to be rainy – the weekend should be sunny. “The downside of that,” Garcia said, “is that overnight we don’t have that blanket of clouds to keep the heat in.”