{"id":61735,"date":"2026-01-26T18:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=61735"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:54:30","slug":"national-weather-service-issued-a-cold-weather-advisory-for-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/26\/national-weather-service-issued-a-cold-weather-advisory-for-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"National Weather Service\u00a0issued\u00a0a cold weather advisory for Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"7fadca\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7fadca;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/download-18.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61736 not-transparent\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Weather Service&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?lat=28.0441545&amp;lon=-81.948966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued<\/a>&nbsp;a cold weather advisory for Polk County on Tuesday, Jan. 27, in effect until 9 a.m. A freeze watch will follow, and temperatures could dip below 24\u00ba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland is doing its part to help those dealing with snow and ice up north. Lakeland Electric sent 21&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/24\/lakeland-electric-is-sending-our-crews-to-the-city-of-rock-hill-sc-in-response-to-winter-storm-fern\/\">mutual aid crew members&nbsp;<\/a>to South Carolina ahead of the storm, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/noaas-hurricane-hunters-tackle-winter-storm\/\">Hurricane Hunters<\/a>&nbsp;flew out from NOAA\u2019s Lakeland base to gather crucial data for forecasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weather impacted air travel nationwide, and Avelo offered to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/23\/avelo-offers-rebooking-for-lakeland-international-travelers-amid-winter-storm\/\">rebook<\/a>&nbsp;passengers on canceled flights from Lakeland International Airport.&nbsp;<em>If you\u2019re more concerned about what\u2019s on the ground,<\/em>&nbsp;UF\/IFAS has plenty of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu\/lawn-and-garden\/winter-plant-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">winter plant protection tips<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service&nbsp;issued&nbsp;a cold weather advisory for Polk County on Tuesday, Jan. 27, in effect until 9 a.m. A freeze watch will follow, and temperatures could dip below 24\u00ba.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDFcL2Rvd25sb2FkLTE4LndlYnA_Zml0PTI1OSUyQzE5NCZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6Ik5hdGlvbmFsIFdlYXRoZXIgU2VydmljZVx1MDBhMGlzc3VlZFx1MDBhMGEgY29sZCB3ZWF0aGVyIGFkdmlzb3J5IGZvciBQb2xrIENvdW50eSIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.CzXTRYT6QWVfbM3OY0pb-D3zYF7areT9O8_ZpGYnIzQMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":61736,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/download-18.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[694],"tags":[13359],"class_list":["post-61735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-by-o","tag-national-weather-service-issued-a-cold-weather-advisory-for-polk-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61737,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61735\/revisions\/61737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}