Hottest year ever update, Florida edition: Overnight cold weather breaks half-century old record

The temperature fell to 22-degrees overnight in Gainesville and 23-degrees in Ocala. The old record for this date in Gainesville was 24 degrees, a cold record mark set in 1959, according to the National Weather Service. (The agency does not keep records for Ocala.)

Look for more opportunities to set new cold weather records over the next week or two.

According to the Weather Service, North Florida will continue to have hard freezes - except for Saturday night - for more than a week.