{"id":94116,"date":"2025-12-23T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94116\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:58:09","slug":"36-years-since-it-actually-snowed-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94116\/","title":{"rendered":"36 years since it actually snowed in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you\u2019re a Jacksonville native, you remember where you were Dec. 23, 1989 &#8212; when the most recorded snowfall occurred in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The final total? Several inches in some areas, and to date, it remains the only White Christmas in Northeast Florida history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Of course, there were no smartphones in the 20th century, but high-quality home movie cameras were available. In recent years, a few Floridians have uploaded the footage they captured to YouTube:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jacksonville<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lake City<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Panama City<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So how\u2019s the weather for Christmas this year? The First Alert Weather Team says mid-to-upper 70s are expected for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with abundant sunshine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PHOTOS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/photos\/gallery-1989-snow\/3FAKNGZ7YZEWTOCBIO6KOQG6QQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:1989 snow in Jacksonville;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">1989 snow in Jacksonville<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Shawn Gorman says he was 5 at the time of the 1989 snow (He's in the light blue jacket.)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ed11f7d8df0b7085395532667f2eea2a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Shawn Gorman says he was 5 at the time of the 1989 snow (He&#8217;s in the light blue jacket.)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Melissa Giammarco Longmire\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30646b6c86288b0c5b73b50d557d4246.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Melissa Giammarco Longmire<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dead850d89dc2a6c97a8183cb8dd18e0.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"Chance Rutherford says he's the child raising a high five in the front.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"526\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/98908ffeeddac7865516829d501eddb6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chance Rutherford says he&#8217;s the child raising a high five in the front.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Viewer Christina shared a picture of her and her dad in the snow\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/001e16a6da17fef92da9bf143d6f1258.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Viewer Christina shared a picture of her and her dad in the snow<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Share your photos and videos from the 1989 snowstorm by uploading them below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re a Jacksonville native, you remember where you were Dec. 23, 1989 &#8212; when the most recorded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18050,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-94116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-first-alert-weather-team","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94116","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=94116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}