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The vast majority of snow events in Florida occurred in North Florida and the Jacksonville area. According to the National Weather Service, the record snowfall for the city of Jacksonville is 1.9 inches (4.83 cm), which fell on February 12, 1899. Tampa has a record snowfall of 0.2 inches (5.08 mm) which occurred on January 19, 1977. [8]
Between 8 and 9:30 am, snow flurries were reported in several areas outside Miami. The National Weather Service office in Miami reported that an observation at nearby Lake Worth reported a trace of snow on the ground at the 9:00 am observation (it was gone by the 10:00 am observation). This was the source of the trace of snow at Miami in 1977.
The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972. [2]
READ MORE: Did it ever snow in Miami? Take a look at this January day. The front page of The Miami Herald on January 20, 1977, the day after it snowed in Miami. View this post on Instagram.
All that is to say, no one alive in the area has ever seen this much snow. Snow falls on St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Jan. 21, 2025. / Credit: Tyler Kaufman / Getty ...
In 1977, before weather events were analyzed, dissected and politicized, it was just snow in South Florida, and it was wonderful. Four decades later, the day it snowed in South Florida still ...
Fastest ever recorded: 484±32 km/h (301±20 mph) (3-second gust); calculated by a DOW (Doppler On Wheels) radar unit in the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado between Oklahoma City and Moore, Oklahoma, USA, 3 May 1999. Recently, the wind speeds were re-examined and adjusted to a maximum official wind speed of 321 mph (516.6 km/h).
Orlando reached an all-time record low of 18 °F (−8 °C) on December 28, 1894, [1] which still stands. In the second cold wave (1895), West Palm Beach recorded an all time record low (since broken) of 27 °F (−3 °C) on February 9, 1895.