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As Miami hit a low of 48 around 6 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 24, a group of friends celebrated Christmas at South Pointe, Miami Beach.

Frigid weather doesn't stop Santas surfing off Florida coast

AP

Despite the frigid temperature, the 14th annual Christmas Eve Surfing Santas festival was held Saturday morning at Cocoa Beach on Florida’s Space Coast.

A reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton (right) and a modern-human version of a skeleton are displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 2003. A new study confirms that early humans who lived in colder places adapted to have larger bodies.

Colder Climates Meant Bigger Bodies For Ancient Humans

Rebecca Hersher

Human ancestors got steadily larger over the last 1 million years. Our relatives living in colder places developed bigger bodies, a new study finds.

A frigid blast of winter weather across the U.S. plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency Monday that knocked out power to almost 4 million people and shut down airports and icy roads.

Millions Lose Power In Texas, Northern Mexico As Blackouts And Bitter Cold Continue

Jaclyn Diaz

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott deployed the Texas National Guard to move people without heat and power into shelters.

A person runs in the snow on Saturday on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Winter weather was expected to continue through the weekend in the region. Winter conditions are forecast to extend through much of the U.S. early into the week.

Wintry Conditions Are Expected For Large Swaths Of U.S. Early Into The Week

Jason Slotkin

More than 150 million are under warnings and advisories stretching from the South and Northwest and into the Northeast. The entire state of Texas was under winter advisories on Sunday.

Cold Wave Prompts Frost And Freeze Alerts Deep Into Florida

Ray Hawthorne

The third night of a chilly air mass is likely to be the coldest over most of the Florida peninsula, prompting the issuance of freeze warnings and frost...

Your body needs trace amounts of zinc for cell division and other basic biology. Nobody's sure how it works to shorten colds.

Taking Zinc Can Shorten Your Cold. Thank A 91-Year-Old Scientist For The Discovery

Allison Aubrey

Dr. Ananda Prasad first turned up zinc's benefits to human growth back in the 1960s. Years later, his study and others found that the right dose of zinc can cut a cold's duration by days.

A man holds a cold-stunned iguana outside an apartment complex in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday. "This isn't something we usually forecast, but don't be surprised if you see iguanas falling from the trees tonight as lows drop into the 30s and 40s," the National Weather Service said Tuesday.

When Winter Hits Florida, Iguanas Fall From Trees — And Maybe Onto The Grill

Bill Chappell

"Verified the iguana warning," the National Weather Service office in Miami says. There are also reports that, much like in 2018, some people see the cold-stunned lizards as free meat.

Arts & Culture

Weather Essay: When Florida Turns Pink

Tom Hudson

“Why is the sky turning pink?”That’s what my 6-year-old asked me as we watched one of the TV weather forecasts this week. We were on the couch in shorts…