The 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade had to be postponed because of a record-setting snowfall in Pensacola in January. It was rescheduled for Juneteenth, but was forced to start late because of excessive heat.
Hopefully, the 2026 parade temperature and forecast will be somewhere between those two extremes.
The 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade takes place on Jan. 19 which is the federal holiday celebrating the slain civil rights leader who was assassinated while on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39…