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Posted on 02/01/2026 6:45:15 PM PST by Libloather
Orlando International Airport was forced to ground all flights on Sunday afternoon after “extreme cold” sparked an emergency in the air traffic tower.
The FAA issued an alert about the ground stop due to a “possible fire” at an air traffic control tower early Sunday afternoon, but the order was lifted at 4:15 p.m. after the cause was determined.
In reality, the extreme cold — currently 43 degrees — caused a spinkler head in the fire suppression system at the facility to activate.
The agency had sent out a bare-bones “fire alarm/safety” advisory that a tower was evacuating due to a possible fire, with the probability of the ground stop being extended cited as “medium.”
According to FlightAware, 213 flight delays were reported into or out of Florida’s busiest airport on Sunday.
Sunday saw cold records smashed over the Sunshine State, with Daytona Beach, Leesburg, Sanford, Orlando, Melbourne, Vero Beach and Fort Pierce all notching their coldest low temperatures ever notched in the month of February.
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Al Roker says all the global warming is going to the North Pole and sending all the cold air south. He actually said that.
I hope Mickey is OK.
33 degrees in Disney World!
41 in Miami!
extreme cold — currently 43 degrees
Does not compute.
That stupid jerk.
Young, mush headed kids will believe that.
I heard they tried to give the announcement over the speakers outside and the words froze in the air. /S 🥶
Bellow 50 is extreme Cold in Naples.
I.E... They have never invested in de-icing equipment... Then again... Why should they? It’s not like we’re heading for another ice age.
SELL ALL ORONGE STOCK!😂
Where I come from. 43 is a balmy winter day.
Hey, hey. I am here in St. Lucie County (Fort Pierce is the county seat) and I had to pull out a pair of jeans to wear to Publix. Big deal, you think. Well how bout this? I also put on my denim jacket. The lined one that I got out in Denver where they know about winter clothes.
Thank goodness we have hot cocoa supplies at hand or there might be a pretty sad ending for us in this cold snap.
43 degrees, that is a scorcher here, short sleeve weather. We haven’t seen above freezing temperatures in over two weeks.
Maybe for this guy.
What’s Al Gore doing in Orlando?
In Alberta, they would still land the planes even the planes had to land in 30’ of snow.
ORONGEs hardest hit!
“It’s not like we’re heading for another ice age.”
Don’t some claim that we are overdue?
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