#florida-freeze

#florida-freeze

"These improvements empower communities to prepare earlier and more effectively for dangerous hazards from tropical storms and hurricanes," said Michael Brennan, director of NOAA's National Hurricane Center.

Creating a Disney World packing list can feel daunting. You want outfits that are both cute and comfortable enough for long days on your feet while still feeling photo-ready for castle pictures. Add temperature swings to the equation, and packing suddenly becomes even more challenging. While many travelers associate Florida parks with nonstop heat, the reality is that cold fronts during the winter and spring shoulder season can bring surprisingly chilly mornings, making outfit planning trickier than you might expect.

Cover up. Frostbite can develop within minutes on exposed skin, especially with wind chill. Keep moving to maintain your body heat and seek shelter from the wind.

Intensely cold air is scouring the central and eastern U.S. again and will send temperatures plummeting all the way to the tip of Florida. Along with this new Arctic incursion, a major bomb cyclone storm is strengthening off the coast of the Carolinas, potentially bringing rare blizzard conditions to the region. Some areas haven't seen this amount of accumulating snow in over 30 years, wrote the National Weather Service's office in Wilmington, N.C., on Facebook.

Green iguanas (Iguana iguana) are not native to the U.S. but were brought to Florida in the 1960s, where they have, for the most part, flourishedexcept, that is, when temperatures have dropped below 50 degrees F (10 degrees C). These chilly conditions can cause a cold shock in the lizards. And because the iguanas tend to sleep in trees, getting cold shocked can sometimes cause the animals to fall from the skies in an infamous Florida phenomenon.

Wind chill is a measure of how quickly bodies lose heat when you combine low temperatures with high winds. And wind chill conditions can be dangerous. "The stronger the winds [and] the colder it is, the more likely you are to develop frostbite in a short amount of time or hypothermia," says Jessica Lee of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.

Residents in the Greater Toronto Area are in for another chilly weekend with warnings issued for risk of frostbite, according to Environment Canada. The national weather agency issued a yellow weather alert Saturday morning for wind chills of -25 to -30 for Saturday morning. Those frigid temperatures are expected to come back again Saturday night and stick around until Sunday morning. However, there will be some sunny breaks on Saturday with a high of -11 C that will feel like -19 C in the afternoon.

Torontonians are being told to bundle up and brace for frigid temperatures Thursday night now that the city has been placed under a yellow cold warning. Wind chill values will make it feel like 30 to 35 Thursday night into early Friday morning, Environment Canada said in the warning. "Cover up," the federal weather agency said. "Frostbite can develop within minutes on exposed skin, especially with wind chill."

The coldest night is going to be Thursday night into early Friday morning,