A winter storm forecast to impact the U.S. Southeast this weekend could bring something Tampa hasn’t seen in a long time: snow flurries.
As National Weather Service forecasts grow more confident about the storm’s reach, most of the higher snowfall totals are still expected along the Eastern Seaboard — especially in the Carolinas. But one coastal Tampa forecast area has also popped up with a small chance of snow impacts.
“Holy cow This has to be a first!! I was checking on the impacts of the SE Coast Blizzard, and noticed that #Tampa Bay has been highlighted in NOAA’s Winter Storm Severity Index for a ‘small’ chance of #snow impacts. So, yes, I’m saying there’s a chance,” WFLA-TV chief meteorologist Jeff Berardelli posted on X on Wednesday…