Has It Ever Snowed in Florida?

Once, and officially only as a trace. On January 19, 1977, an arctic front pushed snow flurries across Broward and Miami-Dade counties; NWS Miami records it as the first snow in South Florida's recorded history. No measurable snow has ever been recorded at Miami International Airport, whose precipitation records carry an asterisk for that morning.

The Panhandle and far north see flurries or a dusting every few years, but even Tallahassee has recorded measurable snow only a handful of times in about eight decades of records; its biggest was about 0.8 inch on December 22-23, 1989. Central and South Florida measure essentially none.

Almost certainly not measurably, and no seasonal outlook can say otherwise: snow in Florida requires a rare collision of deep arctic air with moisture over the peninsula. If it happens, it will be a trace-to-dusting event in the far north with lots of photographs.

At least 0.1 inch of snowfall accumulating in a day at an official station, which is the National Weather Service convention used throughout this site. Flurries that melt on contact are recorded as a trace and do not count, which is exactly why famous southern "snow days" often do not appear in the record books.