Winter Storm Warning for Florida Panhandle (snow, ice storms)

[big_dog]

Source: The National Weather Service

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 346 PM EST MON JAN 27 2014

...WINTER STORM WARNING TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTH GEORGIA...SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND...

...COLD TEMPERATURES AND WIND CHILLS WILL ARRIVE TUESDAY...

.A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT...BRINGING AN ABRUPT END TO TODAYS WARM TEMPERATURES. COLD LIGHT RAIN WILL GRADUALLY CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA TUESDAY AFTERNOON AS THE TEMPERATURE FALLS TO FREEZING. THE FREEZING LINE WILL SHIFT SOUTHEASTWARD TUESDAY NIGHT...BRINGING A THIN GLAZE OF ICE AS FAR SOUTH AS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND. A BRIEF PERIOD OF SLEET OR SNOW IS POSSIBLE JUST BEFORE THE PRECIPITATION ENDS...WHICH WILL BE WEDNESDAY MORNING FROM TIFTON TO DOTHAN NORTHWARD. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA. ELSEWHERE THE CHANCE FOR SNOW WILL BE LOWER...THOUGH A TRACE OF SLEET OR SNOW IS POSSIBLE AS FAR SOUTH AS FLORIDA. THE MAIN IMPACT FROM THIS EVEN WILL MOST LIKELY BE THE FREEZING RAIN...AS EVEN SMALL AMOUNTS CAN SERIOUSLY DISRUPT LOCAL TRAVEL.

TIMING...TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

* ACCUMULATIONS...ICE ACCUMULATIONS FROM A TENTH TO A QUARTER OF AN INCH...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SLEET OR SNOW IS POSSIBLE ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM GENEVA TO TIFTON. ELSEWHERE SNOW AMOUNTS WILL RANGE FROM A TRACE TO A QUARTER OF AN INCH.

* MAIN IMPACT...ICY ROADS AND BRIDGES WILL MAKE DRIVING HAZARDOUS. EVEN SMALL AMOUNTS OF ICING CAN HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS TO TRAVEL IN THE DEEP SOUTH.

* OTHER IMPACTS...IF THERE IS MORE FREEZING RAIN THAN CURRENTLY EXPECTED...POWER OUTAGES COULD BECOME A CONCERN. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...WITH WIND CHILLS IN THE TEENS AND 20S.




Read more: http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=tae&wwa=winter%20storm%20warning

[William769]

1. What?

It's 80 degrees here right now. At least in S.W. Florida.

[big_dog]

2. looks like the snow bullseye is on , north carolina /south carolina, georgia

[LiberalEsto]

3. Stay safe, stay warm everyone

I feel so bad because these folks are not used to this kind of weather.

[big_dog]

5. exactly its -45 in chicago, but they are used to it

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two ft of snow all over the carolinas could be mayhem

[Aerows]

14. Snow shuts the entire area down

because we have absolutely no mechanism to get rid of it, we don't have salt trucks, and nobody has any idea how to drive in it.

I remember we got hit with something similar in New Orleans in the early 90's. The city was shut down for 3 days because there was snow and ice and wrecks all over the place.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Currently 50 degrees in Homer, Alaska

43 here in Anchorage. You all need to move north to the new tropics.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. This is getting to be like the Bullwinkle episode "Topsy Turvy World"

where Frostbite Falls becomes "tropical" while there is a huge snowstorm in the tropical South Pacific.

Maybe Boris Badenov is behind this

[big_dog]

8. a foot of snow every 6 hours in augusta, georgia??!!!

Ski Season at Augusta National?

[IDemo]

11. A Biathlon Masters could be entertaining

[Solly Mack]

7. Dang, Blue. It's going to snow here again tonight.

They've already closed the post.

[Bandit]

17. My peonies are starting to sprout and it is supposed to get into single digits next week

I am hoping beyond hope that all my flowers will not be killed. I mulched around most last weekend with chopped up cardboard but all I can do is keep my fingers crossed.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Are you in Anchorage, Bandit?

I just took a picture of some violas blooming outside my front door. My brother says it was 58 in Homer yesterday.

I'm a little concerned about my flowers, too, but like you I mulched mine really good this fall since last winter was so weird. My peonies are in a little flower bed between our double driveways, and it's where we shoveled the snow from the driveway earlier so it's still pretty deep out there. I'm hoping they'll be fine.

We just took a run down to Girdwood. The pussy willows are fully erupted along the Arm and there are no ice/mud chunks along the shoreline. Totally weird.

[Bandit]

19. No I am in Juneau

We haven't had any snow on the ground since December and the weather has been unseasonable warm. No snow for insulation and with the very warm weather things are starting to sprout. It is supposed to get into single digits next week so I can only hope for the best. Had record snowfall in November and early December but since then spring weather..

[NutmegYankee]

9. Holy Crap!

You'll be out of bread and milk for weeks!

[freshwest]

10. That's down to Florida! Must be much worse to the North of them. Stay safe! n/t

[Aerows]

13. It will be

We aren't going to get above freezing here on the Gulf Coast for a couple of days and we are getting freezing rain tonight, sleet tomorrow. Snow on Wednesday.

[Aerows]

12. We have a forcast of freezing rain tonight

sleet tomorrow morning, and snow on Wednesday. It won't get about freezing until Thursday.

And this is a freaking MILE from the Gulf of Mexico. Last week we had two days where it didn't get above freezing and sleet and ice and generally shitty weather.

Stay warm, folks!

[olddad56]

15. Just another snow storm in Florida. Nothing to look at here, move along, and don't ...

anyone blame the bizarre weather across the entire planet on global warming. If there were such a thing, I know our government would have told us about the problem and fixed it.

[Aerows]

16. A lot of Southerners don't know about wearing hats

Covering your ears and your head preserves warmth, but I didn't know that until I had to go to DC in January to fix a server. It was in the single digits and windy. I knew about wearing gloves, but no one told me that I needed a hat. I had the worst ear ache I've ever endured due to that trip.

I'll tell you this, though. I put on a hat when I was deep into MI, and it didn't bother me NEARLY as much as DC with no hat.