"Re-freezing of snow and sleet melt is expected this evening, as temperatures plummet well below freezing after dark."
Warming temperatures and abundant sunlight — ice and snow’s biggest enemies — should soon melt most of the frozen precipitation that fell on Tallahassee.
Forecasters said it was too early to tell whether the ice and snow would approach or beat Tallahassee’s all-time snowfall record of 2.8 inches set in 1958.
The wind chills as low as 15 degrees are expected for parts of Alabama, Georgia and Florida Thursday evening into Friday morning.
The National Weather Service and European global models show increasing chances of snow in Florida on Monday and Tuesday night.
Here's the latest on what the storm brought to the Panhandle and North Florida Tuesday ... meteorologist with the National Weather Service Tallahassee. No record was set.
“North winds 25 to 30 knots with gusts up to 45 knots. Seas 7 to 10 feet, occasionally to 13 feet,” the NWS marine forecast from Fernandina Beach south to St. Augustine said. “Intracoastal waters very rough. Showers. Freezing rain after midnight.”
“We had quite a bit of melting (Wednesday), and we’re expected to hit the upper 30s, low 40s today,” said Christian Oliver, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.
The National Weather Service has issued extreme cold warnings, cold weather advisories and freeze warnings for Florida.
The storm front that has provided a rainy respite for firefighters in California was beginning its roll across the nation Tuesday, forecast to spread rain, snow and ice along a 2,600-mile stretch from the Southwest to Northeast by the weekend, meteorologists say.
Weather data from cities across the state suggest that while temperatures are gradually rebounding, variations persist in different regions.
Temperatures in North Florida last week were downright frigid. From Jan. 19-25, Pensacola's average temperature was 33.8 degrees, which is 17.3 degrees below the average temperature for the same time frame, according to the NWS.