{"id":121281,"date":"2026-01-16T23:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/121281\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:55:14","slug":"how-cold-did-it-get-what-are-the-latest-chances-for-snow-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/121281\/","title":{"rendered":"How cold did it get? What are the latest chances for snow in Florida?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone wishing for snow in North Florida<\/a> need not abandon all hope \u2014 it’s still a possibility for the morning of Sunday, Jan. 18.<\/p>\n

But they might want to brace themselves for the cold, wet facts.<\/p>\n

According to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee, chances are low\u00a0\u2014 about 10-20% \u2014 for measurable snowfall for an area that stretches from west of Panama City through Tallahassee and Monticello.<\/p>\n

Kristian\u00a0Oliver,\u00a0NWS\u00a0meteorologist, said conditions, including above freezing ground and air temperatures, aren\u2019t favorable for snow.<\/p>\n

Mark Hinson’s take: Wintry mix-up? Let it snow, let it snow, but not in the South<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say zero, because some models do output some low-end probabilities,\u201d he said. \u201cBut there\u2019s a lot working against snow accumulation here. It\u2019s just going to be slightly too warm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver said that even after the hard freeze of Friday, Jan. 16, temperatures were expected to reach the 50s later in the day and the 50s the following day.\u00a0A bitter cold rain is expected to move into the area<\/a> the night of Jan. 17 into the morning of Jan. 18, when it could briefly turn to snow.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it happens to occur, it\u2019s going to have a really hard time accumulating,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only possible instance where something may be impacted would be elevated surfaces where they\u2019re exposed on all sides, like a bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The low chance of white stuff was still enough for the Florida Department of Transportation to prepare.<\/p>\n

“FDOT is actively monitoring and has prepared for potential impacts of incoming winter weather conditions this weekend,” the agency wrote on X. “Crews are prepared to deploy anti-icing solutions on roadways and bridges throughout North Florida and have staged equipment like generators and snowplows if needed. #ReadyToServe<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

WeatherTiger: Sorry to rain on your winter parade. Florida snow seems unlikely<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tallahassee<\/p>\n

Tallahassee has a 10-20% chance of measurable snow for the morning of Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee. Chances are slightly higher in South Georgia.<\/p>\n

NWS\u00a0said on its website that chances of snow had remained steady or decreased slightly, with higher chances in South Georgia and lower chances in Florida\u2019s eastern Big Bend, including the coast.<\/p>\n

“This is very much a ‘thread the needle’ kind of event, and lots of things will have to go right for us to get accumulating snow across our forecast area,” NWS said. “We are NOT expecting anything close to what we saw during last January’s snow event.”<\/p>\n

Still the morning run of the well-respected Euro model called for an inch of snow in the Tallahassee area with a wide swath of the Panhandle seeing some kind of wintry precipitation.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the low temperature hit an unofficial 20 degrees at 6:53 a.m. at Tallahassee International Airport on Friday, Jan. 16. Oliver said the temperature may have dropped a degree lower, which forecasters would confirm later in the day.<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t come close to breaking any all-time or daily records. According to\u00a0NWS, the daily record low is 15 degrees, set in 1927. The coldest temperatures on record are 6 degrees, which happened on Jan. 21, 1985, and going back further in the record books, minus 2 degrees on Feb. 13, 1899.<\/p>\n

There will be a brief warm-up Saturday, before another arctic plunge brings lows to at or below freezing for a three-day stretch.<\/p>\n

Contact Jeff Burlew at jburlew@tallahassee.com<\/a> or 850-599-2180.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: How cold was it? Is snow next in Tallahassee, Florida?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone wishing for snow in North Florida need not abandon all hope \u2014 it’s still a possibility for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[28,2072,60704,232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-121281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-national-weather-service","10":"tag-snow-accumulation","11":"tag-tallahassee","12":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","13":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}