Not Beach Weather, Florida Panhandle Dusted With Snow

SHALIMAR (CBSMiami/AP) — An antithetic show successful the state’s Panhandle arsenic snowfall fell Monday erstwhile temperatures dropped dramatically from the time before.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office posted a video a lawman captured connected patrol showing falling snowflakes bathed successful the airy of a lamppost successful a store’s parking lot. Only 12 hours earlier, the somesthesia had been 75 grade Fahrenheit, the station said.

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“Well how’s this for a somesthesia change? From 75 degrees astatine 3 successful the day to snowfall astatine 3 am,” the station said. “Bundle up retired there!”

Michele Nicholson, a spokeswoman for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, said successful an email that the snowfall didn’t instrumentality truthful it didn’t origin immoderate problems. The region is location to 2 fashionable formation destinations, Fort Walt Beach and Destin.

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Don Shepherd, a elder forecaster for the National Weather Service successful Mobile, Alabama, said successful a telephone interrogation that the dusting was “just a fewer small flurries.”

The past clip the Florida Panhandle had immoderate important wintertime upwind was successful January 2018 erstwhile a tempest dumped snowfall successful Tallahassee for the archetypal clip successful 3 decades and forced the closure of schools, offices and a agelong of Interstate 10.

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The National Weather Service successful Mobile, Alabama, whose territory includes the Florida Panhandle, warned Monday that it was going to beryllium unusually acold for the country and would consciousness colder than the existent somesthesia due to the fact that of breezy conditions.

CBSMiami.com Team