Residents in Northeast Florida wake up to snow Wednesday as winter storm moves out It’s a memory many say they’ll never forget
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It was a unique morning Wednesday as many in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia woke up to snow and a mix of winter precipitation!
If you caught a glimpse of some light flakes in Jacksonville, consider yourself fortunate. But it may not have actually been “snow.”
On Wednesday morning, the National Weather Service in Jacksonville said it confirmed snow at its office next to the Jacksonville International Airport, but The Weather Authority said chances are it was not technically snowing in Duval County .
“Officially had some light snow at the National Weather Service office in Jacksonville around 8am!” a tweet said .
According to our meteorologists, what residents were seeing was sleet . Sleet can be compacted into snowballs.
A snowflake requires a completely frozen sky above the ground all the way up. This was not the case in Jacksonville. Conditions never completely satisfied this requirement with a layer of above-freezing air wedged a few thousand feet above the city. (Click here to read the full breakdown )
People around Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia also took to SnapJAX to share their snow, ice and snow flurry photos on SnapJAX.
Related: Snowfall, power outages, road closures as rare winter storm hits Southeast Georgia
Take a look at what greeted our viewers on the morning of Jan. 22.
Related Video: Ice covers the ground in Nassau County during winter storm
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