Snow didn’t come with the cold in Miami. But it did in these other Florida cities
Saturday night and Sunday morning’s plunging temperatures didn’t bring a revival of The Day It Snowed to Miami.
But snow graced other parts of the Sunshine State.
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OK, only snow flurries — which are to accumulating snow as Totino’s frozen pizzas are to pizzas from a wood oven — but still.
The National Weather Service’s Tampa Bay office caught Sunday morning flurries and posted a video to the X platform. Minutes after the 4:45 a.m. photo, the Tampa Airport temperature registered 34 degrees (wind chill: 25) on its way down to a low of 30 degrees around 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Jacksonville also got snow flurries Saturday afternoon and evening, when temperatures were in the 30s, on their way to a Sunday morning low of 23 at the Jacksonville Naval Station.
And videos shared online documented snowflakes swirling in the Bradenton/Sarasota area.
How could that happen? Meteorologists credit “the Gulf effect.” Similar to “lake effect snow” common to the Great Lakes area, freezing air moving over significantly warmer water pushes moisture upwards, creating clouds and the possibility for snow flurries.
Bradenton Herald staff writer Ryan Ballogg contributed reporting.
