Here is your forecast for Friday, January 23rd, 2026.
While we track a powerful winter storm impacting millions this weekend, SWFL has a beautiful weekend ahead. Today, Punta Gorda tied the record of 85°! This weekend will be similar.
We'll wake up Saturday morning again to patchy fog with lows in the low to mid-60s. Any fog should clear by 10am. Thereafter, expect lots of sunshine with highs in the 80s.
Sunday may also start with patchy fog, but overall, I am expecting higher winds on Sunday with southerly gusts to 22 mph. Aside from the breeze, expect partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures in the 80s once again.
While we expect a beautiful weekend, that will be the total opposite for much of the nation.
A significant, long-duration winter storm will bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England through Monday.
Widespread travel disruptions, prolonged power outages, and vast tree damage is likely.
Some locations, like Washington, DC, are expected to receive 12" of snow followed by ice on Sunday.
Frigid temperatures, gusty winds, and dangerous wind chills will expand from the north-central US to the Southern Plains, MS Valley, and Midwest.
FOX 4 MORNING METEOROLOGIST TRENT ARIC
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