A freeze warning was issued by the National Weather Service in Jacksonville early Monday, Dec. 29, days after experts warned an Arctic cold front could bring some of the " coldest temperatures of the season " to some Florida counties.

High temperatures on Dec. 30 could be "the coldest of the 2025-2026 winter season so far," according to the National Weather Service Tallahassee.

Snow in the Sunshine State doesn't happen very often. But it did. And here are the photos from Pensacola to Yulee to prove it.

Arctic air is spilling into Florida ahead of New Year’s, bringing colder-than-normal temps. Are frozen iguanas a probability during this cold snap?

Florida’s 2025 weather was relatively subdued, with no hurricane landfalls and roughly half the usual number of severe weather reports.

Here’s what we know about the predicted weather for Christmas 2025 in Florida as of Dec. 18, and the last time it snowed in Florida.

While the Deep South isn’t known for blizzards, snow is far from impossible. On rare occasions, a large area of bitterly cold arctic air will travel all the way south to the Gulf. That cold air grabs onto some warm Gulf moisture, and the result is snow. This happens about every few years.

After bringing significant accumulations to Montana and parts of the Rockies, a fast-moving clipper storm will bring a 1,500-mile stretch of accumulating snow and slippery travel from the Midwest to southern New England this weekend.

Millions of people in the Northeast are under winter storm warnings for a threat of snow and ice expected to hit the region Friday into early Saturday.

On Dec. 23, 1989, a freak snowstorm hit Jacksonville two days before Christmas. Here's the Times-Union's original coverage of storm.