In a Sunday post<\/a> on social media platform X, meteorologist Matt Yarosewick said that snow flurries had been reported in Tampa and Saint Petersburg. \u201cThe arctic invasion is here,\u201d Yarosewick wrote.<\/p>\n Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli shared footage<\/a> of flurries in Wesley Chapel, around 15 to 20 miles northeast of Tampa.<\/p>\n The NWS Tampa Bay also shared video<\/a> of snow flurries falling outside its office in Ruskin early on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n \u201cTemperatures today will only warm into the 40s and 50s,\u201d it said. \u201cTonight the lows are back in the 20s and 30s.\u201d<\/p>\n NWS meteorologist Tony Hurt told Newsweek previously<\/a> that the last time snow flurries occurred in Tampa was in January 2010.<\/p>\n The reports of snow flurries come as a powerful winter storm<\/a> off the East Coast triggered snow and cold alerts in several states, with\u00a0bitterly cold air<\/a>\u00a0expected to sweep as far south as Florida on Sunday.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the wake of the intense cyclone, bitterly cold air will surge down [the] Florida Peninsula this morning with freezing temperatures penetrating all the way down toward the southern coastline,\u201d the NWS Weather Prediction Center (WPC) said in an early Sunday morning forecast discussion. \u201cTemperatures this cold have not been experienced across southern Florida since the record cold month of December 1989,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n Snow Breaks 49-Year Record in South Carolina\u2014’Stay Indoors!’<\/p>\n Meanwhile, NWS meteorologists in South Carolina said a new snowfall record was broken in the state on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201c0.7″ of snow fell at the Charleston International Airport yesterday,\u201d NWS Charleston said in an early Sunday morning social media post<\/a>. \u201cThis breaks the daily snowfall record of 0.6″ that was set in 1977.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-95688673.jpg\"\/)
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