Florida cold snap delivers snow flurries, falling iguanas and record-breaking lows

Icicles dripped from fountains at Orlando theme parks and iguanas littered the ground in South Florida after a cold blast sent temperatures tumbling.

An unusually intense cold snap pushed deep into Florida over the weekend, delivering rare snow flurries, freezing temperatures and record-setting cold across parts of the Sunshine State as Arctic air surged southward behind a powerful winter storm system.

Snowflakes were reported as far south as the Florida Panhandle on Saturday, an extraordinary sight in a region more accustomed to mild winters.

By early Sunday flurries were observed at airports in Jacksonville,…

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