Saturday, February 13, 2010

Winter wonderland.

There could be snow on the ground in all 50 states simultaneously by the end of the week in what would be a weather oddity.
When was the last time they had sticking snow in the Florida panhandle? I remember that St. Simon's Island in Georgia got enough to close the causeway back in... 1989?


(H/T to SondraK via Firehand.)

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  1. Snow in Hawaii? About the other seven?

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  2. Some folks I've talked to here in Central Fla are planning a Valentines weekend jaunt up to the panhandle or into Ga. just to see and play in the stuff.

    Ah, yes, familiarity does indeed breed contempt, and absence apparently does make the heart grow fonder.

    Or, as Mary Chapin Carpenter once put it: "Why do we want what we know we can't have? Why don't we want what's in the palm of our hand?"

    Now, if .gov could absorb the psych and wisdom in those little homilies, they could disband entire bureaucracies...think BATF, DEA, etc.

    Al Terego

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  3. In 92 I saw snow on the ground in Pensacola. Locals were waking their children up at 3AM to play in it, figuring that that would never happen again for 20 years or so. It had all melted away by 10AM, and was an inch deep at most

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  4. 1993, for my area near Tallahassee. 17 years. And the snow lasted for about an hour before the sun came out.

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  5. Black is white! Up is down! The millennium approaches!

    Wait -- belay that last one. But still.

    Anyone else feel like the handbasket is actually a roller-coaster car, and we're only just coming up to the top of the first hill?

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  7. Jacksonville - December of '89- enough snow to shut the place down and close all the bridges.
    I was the last one over the I-95 Bridge heading north to SC to see my fiance...
    Up in Columbia there was no snow...
    I stopped for gas, my pickup covered in The White Stuff and heard a quote from the gasso that will stay with me for quite a while:
    "You must be from Florida- You got snow all over yer truck."

    TBG
    (Edited to correct stupid spelling error.)

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  8. It's confirmed, snow on the ground in all 50 states. Even northern Mexico got an inch or so.

    Don't forget, Hawaii has some very high volcanoes. Snow isn't unusual there.

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  9. That was 92, iff I recall correctly. A late snow, as well. April? I believe it was...

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