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Offline Wingnut

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LAKE MARY, Fla. - A massive winter storm is brewing for millions across the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Northeast, packing dangerous threats of heavy snow, rain, damaging winds, and plummeting temperatures that could snarl travel at the peak of the busy holiday season.

The arctic blast that is covering much of the nation this week leading up to Christmas weekend isn't sparing Florida as cold air pushes into the Sunshine State. Low temperatures Sunday morning are expected in the 30s across northern and central Florida, with high temperatures only managing to claw their way into the 50s.

For several towns and cities in Florida and the Southeast, it will likely be one of – if not the coldest – Christmas Days on record, threatening the records set during the chilly Christmases of 1989 and 1983.  If freezing temperatures mix with precipitation, could we see snow in Florida? Is that even possible? Well, it has happened before.

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/does-it-snow-in-florida-it-has-in-orlando-miami-and-tampa-heres-a-look-back-at-when
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Another visit from winter is on tap.  Central FL is unlikely to get a substantial snowfall besides maybe once in 100 years.   The middle of the gulf stays pretty warm.  Even the state's interior is modified by numerous lakes.  A snowstorm would be preceded by a week of record cold, which would chill the shelf waters to about 50 degrees.  Then you would need another shot of frigid air to accompany a suppressed east coast system.  It's a short window as well.  After mid february, the solar angle is too high. 

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I've seen snow atop Saguaro cacti in Phoenix....
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Of course the real wow factor is not seeing snow in Florida, but watching Floridians drive on it.  :smokin:
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