Winter Weather in Florida
Every winter weather event the National Weather Service has filed in Florida, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.
The most significant on the map
The most significant winter weather episodes in Florida.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 54
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- None recorded
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Florida, January 28 to 30, 2014The third winter storm to impact the NWS Tallahassee County warning area in five years brought a wintry mix of precipitation to virtually the entire forecast area. The predominant precipitation types were sleet and freezing rain.
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Florida, January 3, 2018Early in the morning of January 3rd, portions of north Florida and south Georgia had a mix of wintry precipitation.
- Winter Storm and Coastal Flood in Florida, January 3, 2018An unseasonably deep cold airmass was in place across the southeast region. An area of low pressure deepened near the Bahamas during the day as a vigorous upper level trough swept over the region from the west.
- Winter Weather in Florida, January 17, 2018Snow and sleet fell across the tri-state area on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 with some areas in southeast Alabama receiving around an inch of snow and sleet.
- Winter Weather and Sleet in Florida, December 26, 2010Low level moisture and strong cold air advection on the west side of a 1000 mb surface low offshore of the Georgia Atlantic Coast brought a wintry mix of snow flurries and sleet during the mid morning hours to parts of Northeast Florida.
- Winter Weather in Florida, January 9, 2010Following a cold front early on January 9, some sleet, snow and freezing rain mixed with a band of light rain from Kissimmee to Palm Bay northward. A slight accumulation of mixed precipitation occurred on vehicles, pool screen enclosures and some plants.
- Winter Weather in Florida, December 8 to 9, 2017An extremely rare early season snow event occurred across the central Gulf coast late in the day on the 8th into the morning of the 9th.
- Winter Weather in Florida, January 23, 2016Snow flurries were observed across much of northeast Florida as a surface low deepened offshore of the mid-Atlantic coast with a cold northerly flow and wrap-around low level moisture in place over the local area.
- Winter Weather in Florida, January 17, 2018Another winter weather event occurred across the area on the 16th into the 17th across the Gulf Coast. This marks only the 2nd time in recorded history that two measurable snow events occurred in one winter in Mobile.
- Winter Weather in Florida, January 8, 1996Snow flurries were reported from Crystal River to New Port Richey with no accumulation.
- Winter Weather in Florida, January 3, 2008A cold front swept across central Florida bringing a cold onshore wind flow and a few snow flurries along the coast of Volusia and Brevard counties.
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Florida, February 12, 2010An area of low pressure moved across the north central Gulf. Heavy rain changed over to snow across portions of the central gulf coast as the low moved to the east. Snowfall accumulations ranged from a dusting to as much as 2 inches across the interior western Florida panhandle.
- Winter Weather in Florida, February 12 to 13, 2010Measurable snowfall (1-1.5) was observed over Walton/Holmes Co., with trace amounts observed over Washington, Jackson, Calhoun, Gadsen and Leon counties.
- Winter Weather in Florida, November 21, 2006A strong high pressure center built to the north of the region with strong cold air damming east of the Appalachians.
- Winter Weather in Florida, January 3, 2008Strong area of surface high pressure moved eastward from a position in western Tennessee with a strong north-northeast flow over the local coastal waters. In response a marine stratocumulus deck drifted over the Flagler County and southern St. Johns County areas.
- Winter Weather in Florida, December 25, 2022NWS Melbourne radar indicated a small area of fast-moving showers developed over Osceola and Brevard counties between 0930EST and 1100EST.
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.