JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With all the excitement round an Arctic blast making its manner from Canada to the southern states, everybody appears to be questioning — will it snow in Florida? And perhaps even in Jacksonville?
The Climate Authority is monitoring rain forecasted for Monday, though the temperatures can be within the mid-to-upper 60s that day. These temperatures don’t assist any frozen precipitations.
Nonetheless, individuals on social media are saying that primarily based on the present fashions, we may have snow in Florida late subsequent week. However is that basically the case? In all probability not.
Whereas an arctic air mass is anticipated to convey colder temperatures to the japanese United States, together with northern Florida, with lows probably close to freezing, the forecasted temperatures in Jacksonville are usually not anticipated to be low sufficient to assist snowfall. Plus, you want precipitation to have snow.
The Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Local weather Prediction Middle wrote of their Jan.1, 2025, Prognostic Discussions Legitimate: Jan 07 – 11, 2025 (6-10 Day Outlook)
Legitimate: Jan 09 – 15, 2025 (8-14 Day Outlook), “favor colder-than-normal temperatures throughout a lot of the japanese and south-central U.S. The biggest possibilities (greater than 80 p.c) are forecast from the Ohio Valley southeastward to the Carolinas, Georgia, and northeastern Florida the place the GEFS and ECENS characteristic 7-day temperatures averaging close to 15 levels under regular.”
NOAA goes on to say, “nearer to the Gulf Coast and throughout Florida, above-normal precipitation possibilities improve because of the potential for low-pressure improvement close to the Gulf Coast.”
Whereas temperatures could also be cooler than typical, snow shouldn’t be anticipated in Jacksonville subsequent week.
However there’s a very, very small probability of snow someplace in Florida.
With a possible low-pressure system growing within the Gulf of Mexico early subsequent week, fashions are displaying heavy rains in areas of Louisiana because the arctic air reaches south into Texas and Northern Louisiana. This method is monitoring to the south alongside the Gulf Coast by mid-week. Ought to improvement happen, freezing precipitation is feasible within the Panhandle early Friday morning.
In Atlanta, there’s an opportunity of snow, sleet and freezing rain late on Friday evening, Jan. 10.
Wanting forward 8-10 days is like forecasting landfall for a hurricane that far out. Bear in mind, that fashions are used for steerage, they aren’t written in stone.
The last time it snowed in Jacksonville was on Dec. 23, 1989. The historic occasion resulted when arctic air pushed temperatures under freezing by means of Florida with ice accumulating right down to Miami.
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