Warming temperatures and abundant sunlight — ice and snow’s biggest enemies — should soon melt most of the frozen precipitation that fell on Tallahassee.
It's officially snowed in north Florida on Tuesday afternoon and into Wednesday, the National Weather Service in Tallahassee confirmed. Videos and photos show the fluffy white stuff accumulating on the ground in Florida's Panhandle.
Here's what's closing in anticipation of wintry weather with possible ice and snow headed for the Tallahassee area on Tuesday and Wednesday. Is your event being canceled or business closing due to weather conditions?
With the chances of a historic Florida snow or ice storm inching upward, forecasters may issue a rare winter storm watch for a region more accustomed to squall lines and tropical threats.
“North winds 25 to 30 knots with gusts up to 45 knots. Seas 7 to 10 feet, occasionally to 13 feet,” the NWS marine forecast from Fernandina Beach south to St. Augustine said. “Intracoastal waters very rough. Showers. Freezing rain after midnight.”
Here’s where snow fell in Florida, how much snow the Sunshine State got this week and what the coldest day in Florida history was.
We don’t normally get winter precipitation on an annual basis here in Tallahassee,” Felecia Bowser with the National Weather Service Tallahassee said. “That is definitely rare.”
The National Weather Service has issued extreme cold warnings, cold weather advisories and freeze warnings for Florida.
The rare Southern storm prompted this headline from the Anchorage Daily News: "Hey, New Orleans, please send some of your snow to Anchorage."
The National Weather Service and European global models show increasing chances of snow in Florida on Monday and Tuesday night.
Florida's capital city could be in line for a historic and thrilling snow day or a harrowing ice storm as a freak winter storm slides across the Gulf Coast.