If you were to guess how many of the 50 states have seen snow so far this winter, how many would you guess? A good chunk of them, for sure, but maybe not the deep southern states, right? Obviously Arizona and New Mexico have the mountains for it, and Texas reaches decently high up, but Georgia? Alabama? Mississippi? Florida?
Obviously you already know the answer because you’ve read the title to this post (why else would you be here), but you might be wondering if it’s really true. According to the Weather Channel, it’s all 100% real. Video footage captured by @jmorgan_wx showed light flurries floating in Milton, Florida, last week, and Winter Storm Heather brought accumulation to the northern parts of several of the southern most states early last week.
Milton, to be clear, just about as far north as you can go in Florida, located deep into the state’s panhandle, but it’s still in Florida. South Carolina was almost entirely missed by Winter Storm Heather, but snowfall touched down in Caesars Head State Park in early December.
Hawaii might be a bit confusing to some of you, but snow did touch down on the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in November. This, despite being in Hawaii, does happen almost every year.
Snow touching down in all fifty states in a season usually occurs whenever Florida gets snow. The last time there was snow on the ground in all fifty states at the same time, a much less common occasion, was back in February of 2010.
Snow in Florida is quite rare, but it does happen at least once every couple of winters. In deep southern Florida, snow is much less common. Though, again, it does happen. In January of 1977, Miami saw some snowfall.
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