Snow Flurries For FL: Reports of Flurries/sleet in South FL

[CrazyC83]

Any winter precip in the Keys would be unprecedented, but it is probably not cold enough for that there.

[gatorcane]

Any winter precip in the Keys would be unprecedented, but it is probably not cold enough for that there.

Temperatures across the island chain are in the mid 40s to around 50 at this hour. Looks to warm for sleet. If it were to happen, the Upper Keys (Key Largo) would be where it would happen.

[JonathanBelles]

Pretty good article posted on TWC by NWS and TWC:


Sleet, Flurries Fall in Florida
by Tim Ballisty , on Jan 10, 2010 10:24 am ET
The current arctic cold outbreak has impacted the state of Florida in a significant way. Below you'll find cold weather stories and perspective from east-central Florida to west-central Florida to South Florida including Miami-Dade County.

From the National Weather Service in Melbourne, Florida:

Ingredients came together on Saturday morning and afternoon to produce a very rare and wide-ranging occurrence of sleet, ice pellets and in a few cases snow flurries over east-central Florida.

Numerous reports of sleet were received by the NWS office in Melbourne along and north of a line from Poinciana in Osceola County to Palm Bay in southern Brevard County.

A few locations over Lake, Volusia, Seminole, Orange and north Brevard Counties reported light accumulations of sleet on vehicles or roof tops. There were no known accumulations of wintry precipitation on grassy surfaces or the ground.

This event is comparable in areal coverage to a sleet and snow event that occurred in central Florida on January 19, 1977.

An outbreak of cold arctic air will continue to spill over the area early this week with wide ranging sub-freezing temperatures over the next few nights and hazardous wind chill values well into the state.

weather.com: Yes, these reports of sleet does include the city of Orlando in Orange County and Daytona Beach in Volusia County. Sleet reports (and a few snow flurries reports) came into the Melbourne NWS office around 4:30am ET to around 7 or 8am ET on Saturday morning.

But it wasn't just east-central Florida that got into the wintry action - some isolated spots in south Florida also received some wintry precipitation. Trained spotters in Kendall in Miami-Dade County reported a few ice pellets and flurries at around 7:20pm ET Saturday evening.

In Oakland Park in Broward County, another trained spotter reported snow flurries mixed with rain at around 7pm ET Saturday evening.

Speaking of Miami, the city tied a record low on Sunday morning as it dipped to a very cold 35 degrees.

In west-central Florida, it's not the flurries making headlines but the extended cold stretch that is now in record territory for Tampa and St. Petersburg.

From the Tampa office of the NWS: For over a week now we have seen much below average temperatures across west-central and southwest Florida.

Although it is not unusual for the area to experience these temperatures each winter, it is rare that the cold spell last as long as it has.

The length of this cold stretch has reached record criteria for Tampa and St. Petersburg where readings have not climbed above 60 degrees since January 1.

Other locations are not far behind and with a few more days of cold weather expected, we may experience even more broken records.

Since January 2, temperatures have been running 10 to 30 degrees below average in west-central and southwest Florida.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather- ... ws&anchor=

[JonathanBelles]

Did the snow actually stick on the east coast?