Arctic chill grips the Southeast

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Record low temperatures that had stood for more than a century were broken across the Southeast on Nov. 11, with rare measurable snow recorded in places like North Carolina.

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00:00Jeff, the cold is the story in the south.

00:02It's a big story there.

00:03For one more night, it's going to get better.

00:05But before it gets better, we've got one more night of this here

00:08with freeze warnings in South Georgia, Southeast Alabama, North Florida,

00:12all the way down to the Gulf Coast near the nature coast there.

00:15So we've got our concerns here for more cold.

00:19The snow is behind us.

00:20I just wanted to briefly recap some of the snow.

00:23Eastern North Carolina, measurable snow all the way down to sea level near the Sound.

00:27Really impressive stuff here.

00:28There were reports of even two inches of snow in an area near Columbia and Cresswell

00:33in eastern North Carolina, not far from the Outer Banks.

00:36Really impressive stuff.

00:37Well, here we are with the headlines for the Southeast.

00:39We've got a cold blast with record lows again tonight.

00:42We had many record lows broken last night, some more in Florida tonight.

00:45Impacts will be frozen pipe risks and also the end of the growing season

00:49in more areas in South Georgia and North Florida.

00:52A warming trend takes over once the sun rises tomorrow.

00:56We're not going to look back, though.

00:57It will get better.

00:58This morning, record lows broken in so many areas.

01:01Here are just five spots.

01:02Huntsville, Jackson, Kentucky, Macon, Georgia, mid-20s, low-20s for some of you.

01:06Look at Jacksonville's record low.

01:0735 from 1913, 1943, 1977.

01:12We broke that record by seven degrees.

01:14Really impressive.

01:15Tampa broke a record from 1892.

01:17So we've had some tremendous cold.

01:19We have another night that's going to take us down to record lows in parts of Florida.

01:24Currently, we're dealing with readings around 41 in Norfolk, 42 into Charleston, only 41 in Jacksonville, Florida.

01:32Very nippy there, but we're in the 70s into Lubbock.

01:35So it's a different story if you travel about 1,000 miles west.

01:38Tonight, record lows likely in Gainesville, Jacksonville, Lakeland, and Punta Gorda will be close in Leesburg.

01:44But on the other side of that, the sun returns.

01:46We're going to begin to see the flow lift some of the coldest air away.

01:50And we're going to be, again, moving back in the right direction.

01:53Still a little bit cooler than normal into Thursday, but we'll take it in stride.

01:58More sunshine for Friday.

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