A powerful Arctic cold front is driving temperatures across Florida into the 30s and even 20s, prompting the return of falling iguanas. When temperatures drop below 50 degrees, iguanas can become temporarily immobilized while resting in trees,

FWC warns that Florida’s colder weather is causing iguanas to freeze and become cold-stunned. Moving cold-stunned iguanas is illegal.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) explains that when temperatures reach near freezing or lower, nonnative green iguanas and other reptiles may enter a state of torpor, temporarily losing muscle control. This can occasionally cause green iguanas to drop from trees, it says.

Florida’s iguanas are an introduced species, and they aren’t used to the chilly temperatures the state is currently experiencing

As temperatures drop in Florida, so can iguanas. Low temps this week could make iguanas temporarily paralyzed and fall from trees to the ground.

Temperatures plummeted into the forties as wind chills gripped South Florida on Friday, January 16, affecting the region’s iguana population, footage shows.According to experts quoted in the Miami Patch,

Southwest Florida faces freezing temperatures overnight as cold front brings 30s and wind chills in mid-20s. Tips for protecting plants and pets.

In 1999, director Paul Thomas Anderson depicted a rain of frogs in his film Magnolia. In 2026, during the early hours of the morning, reality surpassed fiction with iguanas in Flor