The drop in water temperature was so significant that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports more than 1,000 sea turtles were rescued off the state's coast after being cold-stunned in the last week. Many of the sea turtles were rescued near St. Joseph Bay, a region of the Gulf west of Apalachicola and east of Panama City.

An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far south as St. Augustine suffering from a condition known as cold stunning

As Floridians reveled in a rare snowfall last week with snowmen and sledding, a team of Florida wildlife experts was busy mounting a sweeping rescue just offshore of the Panhandle. In one of the state’s largest cold-water rescues over the past decade,

Loggerhead MarineLife Center rescues cold-stunned turtles