Kissimmee – Today’s morning, Wednesday, will be recorded in the weather records after the Meteorology Service of Florida confirmed that it is the coldest since January 2018 when a frost froze plants, crops, left frost on the windshields of the cars and forced the Puerto Ricans to wrap themselves up to their noses.
“We even put a coat on the dog. It’s cold ca…! ”Juan Durán, a native of Carolina and who lives in Kissimmee, said this morning. “Today I decided not to go to work because I work on the street and the problem is that the wind makes it feel colder. This has been very strange, ”said the man who had breakfast with his wife Desiree.
The weather agency reported that the wind was blowing constantly between 15 and 20 miles per hour. In addition, the agency extended until 7:00 pm tonight the freeze notice particularly for Osceola (where Kissimmee), Seminole, Orange (where Orlando is located) and Okeechobee counties, an hour and a half south of Orlando.
Some areas of Central Florida reported temperatures of 32 degrees, although the constant breeze caused the feeling of cold to be between 26 degrees, as was the case in the cities of Orlando and Winter Garden. Meanwhile, in the streets early in the morning, the few who dared to circulate were dressed from head to toe with coats, scarves, hats and even gloves, as observed in a route on Highway 192.
Since last night, weather forecasters warned about the frost, recommended citizens to warm themselves and even warned citizens about the possibility of iguanas falling from trees.
“One of those iguanas falls on my head and you find me in an intensive room because I have phobias!” Said Jezabel Santiago, a native of San Juan and neighbor of Kissimmee, and who drank her third cup of coffee to mitigate The low temperature.
“The cold is horrible. It’s been a while since I felt something like that, ”said the woman, who lives in Florida 20 years ago. “Before I left my daughter at the bus stop, I had to stop at a gas station to buy her hot coffee”he counted. “Luckily, today I am free. So I will be wintering like bears, ”he added.
At the Taino’s Bakery Puerto Rican bakery – which is located on Highway 192 in Kissimmee – customers hurried in when they got out of their cars. “Today almost everyone has asked us for everything that is hot … coffee, corn flakes and creams, chocolate and even warm milk with sugar,” said Liza Padilla, owner of the establishment that opened this second branch in Kissimmee about a month ago.
Taisha Ramos, who is a native of Corozal, kept his hands in his coat pocket and sipped his hot coffee. “I remember that in 2018 it also dropped a lot and that in the mornings the cars woke up with frost on top,” recalled the young woman who moved to this city two years ago.
In some counties shelters have been opened since last night for the homeless. The Central Florida Homeless Coalition announced last night that it opened a place at 18 North Terry Avenue in downtown Orlando. Two refuge areas were established, one for men and one for women and mothers with children, as reported by the entity on its website (www.centralfloridahomeless.org).
The Florida Meteorology Service reported that tomorrow the cold will begin to dissipate and that by noon temperatures will return at low 70 degrees.
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