Snowing Along the Florida East Coast

[TampaFl]

Special Weather Statement
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
815 AM EST THU JAN 3 2008

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-031500-
COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-MARTIN-NORTHERN BREVARD
COUNTY-SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-ST. LUCIE-
815 AM EST THU JAN 3 2008

...FLURRIES OCCURRING ALONG THE EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA COAST...

THE COLD TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH STRONG NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS
ARE PRODUCING OCEAN EFFECT SNOW FLURRIES OFFSHORE AND ALONG THE EAST
CENTRAL FLORIDA COAST. FLURRIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN
VOLUSIA COUNTY NEAR HOLLY HILL AND ORMOND BEACH...AND THE POTENTIAL
FOR ADDITIONAL FLURRIES EXISTS FROM BREVARD COUNTY SOUTHWARD THROUGH
INDIAN RIVER...ST LUCIE AND MARTIN COUNTIES AS RADAR ECHOES APPROACH
THE COAST. THESE FLURRIES MAY CONTINUE INTO THE LATE MORNING BEFORE
CHANGING OVER TO VERY LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE. NO ACCUMULATION OF SNOW
IS EXPECTED. THE LAST TIME FLURRIES WERE REPORTED IN EAST CENTRAL
FLORIDA WAS JANUARY 24TH IN 2003.

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GLITTO

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

How often does Eastern Florida get snow? Just wondering as it seem rather a rare event.

[tropicana]

It has snowed on the east coast of Florida in 2003 (Jan 24 2003) during a similar Arctic airmass.
Nothing measurable.

There was also snow flurries , mixed with rain, in Orange, Lake, Seminole and Volusia counties in the evening of Tue Nov 21 2006. it was Florida's first November snowfall since Nov 27-28 1912, that snow fell in Tallahassee.

Prior to all of this, that I know of was during the Christmas freeze of 1989.
I'm sure there are a bunch of other instances.
Just last year, rare snow fell in downtown Tallahassee around 130pm Sat Feb 3 2007, with temps of around 40F..it was just a trace. Tallahassee has seen snow 32 times since 1891. Only trace amounts fell on all but 7 of these occasions. The last measurable snowfall in Tallahassee was Dec 22-23 1989 when 1 inch fell.

-justin-