"Re-freezing of snow and sleet melt is expected this evening, as temperatures plummet well below freezing after dark."
Warming temperatures and abundant sunlight — ice and snow’s biggest enemies — should soon melt most of the frozen precipitation that fell on Tallahassee.
A snowpack — highly unusual for the North Florida area — could send subfreezing low temperatures plunging even further. Lows are expected to drop to the mid to upper 20s over the next few nights. But the National Weather Service in Tallahassee said ...
The National Weather Service in Tallahassee recorded 1.9 inches of mostly sleet at its office on the campus of Florida State University. Forecasters said it was too early to tell whether the ice and snow would approach or beat Tallahassee’s all-time ...
The wind chills as low as 15 degrees are expected for parts of Alabama, Georgia and Florida Thursday evening into Friday morning.
Here's the latest on what the storm brought to the Panhandle and North Florida Tuesday ... meteorologist with the National Weather Service Tallahassee. No record was set.
“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.”
“We had quite a bit of melting (Wednesday), and we’re expected to hit the upper 30s, low 40s today,” said Christian Oliver, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.
The storm front that has provided a rainy respite for firefighters in California was beginning its roll across the nation Tuesday, forecast to spread rain, snow and ice along a 2,600-mile stretch from the Southwest to Northeast by the weekend, meteorologists say.
Weather data from cities across the state suggest that while temperatures are gradually rebounding, variations persist in different regions.
Temperatures in North Florida last week were downright frigid. From Jan. 19-25, Pensacola's average temperature was 33.8 degrees, which is 17.3 degrees below the average temperature for the same time frame, according to the NWS.
Unusually cold temperatures in central Florida have led to winter weather advisories, while Alaska has experienced some rare warm weather this month.