There is a 20 percent chance that a winter storm bringing impacts across the U.S. Southeast this weekend will bring flurries to a Florida city that hasn’t seen snow in 16 years.
The forecast comes as the National Weather Service (NWS) issues forecasts with increasing certainty about the impacts of an incoming winter storm, set to hit the U.S. only days after Winter Storm Fern ravaged the nation last weekend. Whereas most of the higher snowfall totals are expected along the Eastern Seaboard, particularly in the Carolinas, this weekend, one coastal Florida city could witness a rare snowfall.
“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…