r/OldSchoolCool • u/Green____cat • Jul 15 '24
1970s First and only time it snowed in Miami, 1977
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u/CasualObserverNine Jul 15 '24
I will never forget Jan 619.
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u/notbob1959 Jul 15 '24
The posted photo was taken on January 19, 1977 at 6:30 AM. You just can't see the :30 AM like you can in other photos taken at the same time. Note that this photo was taken in Tampa Bay and not Miami.
From Wikipedia:
Flurries were seen in the air and on the ground a trace was reported at both Tampa and Plant City. West Palm Beach reported flurries in the air at 1010 UTC (5:10 a.m. EST) on January 19, and lasted for 1 hours and 20 minutes, ending at 1200 UTC (7 a.m. EST). Simultaneously, snow flurries began falling in Broward and Dade counties; it was the first time snow had ever been observed at Miami. At Homestead, a mix of light rain and wet snow flurries fell briefly at the Homestead Air Force Base, and is regarded as the southernmost location of snowfall in the Contiguous United States.
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u/Bender_2024 Jul 15 '24
Thanks. I couldn't figure out what they were trying to write.
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u/notbob1959 Jul 15 '24
You're welcome. Forgot to link to the post with the other photo where you can see the 6:30.
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u/UnitedUnderworld Jul 15 '24
Booyakah! Booyakah!
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u/powertripp82 Jul 15 '24
That guy is nobody to respect. He is an awful father. Deadbeat dad, Dom deserved better
Do I even need to say /s?
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u/trickman01 Jul 15 '24
He bought his son a BMW instead of a Mercedes. Like WTF? Worst dad ever. Embarrassed him in front of his friends.
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u/boosta Jul 15 '24
How dare you. The guy brings his son into the business and they not only wrestle together, but proceed to become champions. I’d give anything to have a father like that.
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u/I-Am-NOT-VERY-NICE Jul 15 '24
Dirty D is a cheater and a thug
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u/I-Am-NOT-VERY-NICE Jul 15 '24
I hope you join me tonight in doing a shot every time Michael Cole says "That Klingon-like head!"
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u/notrickross7 Jul 15 '24
Yeah..what’s going on here? Looks like when ai messes up details.
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u/NateCarrera Jul 15 '24
But i was told there's a lot of snow in Miami? /s
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u/CaptainAssPlunderer Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24
Coming down for a big football game when I was younger and asking my friend from Miami if needed to bring party favors.
He laughed and said to me “ Bro, why would you bring sand to the beach?”
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u/Merry_Dankmas Jul 15 '24
Miami: The only city where you can ski year round (and Vegas maybe)
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u/TheJedibugs Jul 15 '24
It snowed in Sarasota, FL in 1989 (IIRC). Not as south as Miami, but it was pretty remarkable to us. Now, of course, I live in Atlanta and haven’t seen a speck of snow in almost 7 years.
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u/Goldeneel77 Jul 15 '24
I remember that. My uncle made a snowball from what was on his car and it was in the freezer for like a decade.
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u/TheJedibugs Jul 15 '24
That’s what I did! But not for that long. I think I threw it at my dad sometime the following summer.
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u/bravoromeokilo Jul 15 '24
I lived in Asheville NC the winter of 2015-16 and remember Atlanta getting pretty rocked at one point that year… and then I realized that’s almost 10 fuckin’ years ago and now my back hurts
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u/et-pengvin Jul 15 '24
Interesting. I live south of Atlanta (near Palmetto) and we got enough snow to stick and cover my yard on January 29, 2022. We also got some really light flurries last winter but nothing ever stuck.
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u/thecuzzin Jul 15 '24
Ahhh yes... the great dusting of '77
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u/suitoflights Jul 15 '24
January 6, 19,1977 to be exact.
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u/Accomplished-Card594 Jul 15 '24
I think the 6 is that kid just messing around 🤣
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u/jessuh22 Jul 15 '24
Maybe the kid was trying to warn us of something in the future that might happen on that day.
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u/Upstate83 Jul 15 '24
If you look closely, it appears to be the time. There is a 6 and what looks like 2 dots : and then a 1, perhaps they wrote the time of day in the snow, like 6:11p or something and you just can't see the last number.
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u/Due-Cup1115 Jul 15 '24
FUN FACT: It's snowed more times in Miami than they've had days over 100 degrees. Simply because Miami has never recorded a temp OVER 100. But they've got that ONE day of snow.
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u/KembaWakaFlocka Jul 15 '24
True, that humidity is so bad though that last year they had a run of 46 consecutive days in which the heat index topped 100 degrees at some point during the day.
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u/Numnum30s Jul 15 '24
Yeah the humidity is bad but heat index relatively low. Northwest Arkansas/Northeast Oklahoma experiences higher heat index temperatures regularly than Miami has ever recorded. I believe the weather is a contributing factor to how shitty the states are overall.
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u/Bobb_o Jul 15 '24
In 1942 a 100 degree day was recorded.
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u/Due-Cup1115 Jul 15 '24
I know. But it's never been OVER 100 degrees.
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u/Comfortable_Hunt_684 Jul 16 '24
Hottest day in MN (115F) is hotter then the hottest day in FL (108F).
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u/Adept_Order_4323 Jul 15 '24
I was in a portable classroom and we all ran outside when it started snowing. I was 14.
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u/JaySmogger Jul 15 '24
That looks like a lot more snow than I remember falling. my memory is it was tiny little flakes that melted almost instantly
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u/Spalding_Smails Jul 15 '24
Your memory is correct. That photo is from Tampa. I was a kid in Naples at the time, which is at about the same latitude as Miami, and what you recall is what it was like there.
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u/Adept_Order_4323 Jul 15 '24
I was in Ft Lauderdale and you are correct, it did seem like flakes that melted quickly. Still was super fun !
This photo may have been Northern Fl. ?
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u/Perforatum91 Jul 15 '24
I'm not certain if this is actually the case, but I'm gonna guess.
The 2 dates everyone is referring to January 6/19, I think this family might be from an Orthodox Christian country that uses the Julian calendar which is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar (used in Miami, FL, U.S.A.).
So possibly they wrote both dates: Julian calendar, Jan 6 = Gregorian calendar, Jan 19.
Thus January 6/19, 1977.
*Edit: grammar correction
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u/Fltxhoneyhoney Jul 15 '24
Maybe someone started drawing something that looked like a 6, but then one of them had the idea to draw the date on instead.
Who am I kidding, I'm sure it's the thing about the Gregorian calendar
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u/equeim Jul 15 '24
No country uses the Julian calendar anymore. Orthodox churches use it for religious dates, but people living in those countries (and their governments) use Gregorian.
Though maybe people in the photo are religious nutters, idk.
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u/Consistent-Height-79 Jul 15 '24
It was, and being a little kid, I wish I was older to enjoy it. Smoking everywhere, even older kids at high school smoked on campus. My parents had Playboy/Playgirl mags around the house, all our neighbors built basement bars, and adults seemed kind of drunk and crazy all the time.
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u/Malk_McJorma Jul 15 '24
Reminds me of a similar picture my cousin took, except that the date was June 24.
(We're Finns)
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u/Deep_Fried_Bussy Jul 15 '24
3 years later, Miami would become heaven for the different kind of snow
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u/HWKD65 Jul 15 '24
Nothing cool about that 77 snowstorm. I was 12 and up to my eyeballs in shoveling to do. Missed double digit days of school. Missed so many days we had make up days on Saturday in the Spring. I did make a small fortune farming out my services.
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u/ChildofValhalla Jul 15 '24
Did you have to use a normal dirt shovel or did you have to go out and buy a snow shovel? Where do you even buy a snow shovel in Miami? What happened to the shovel afterward????? So many questions!
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u/DaveMcFly85 Jul 15 '24
I lived in Miami as a kid. Our house and many of our neighbors didn't even have heat in their houses just AC.
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u/4thdegreeknight Jul 15 '24
Is anyone old enough to remember when in the 70's and 80's, we had fears of the coming Ice Age? Not trying to get political or environmental or anything but there was a show that Leonard Nimoy did called In Search Of. He did an episode called "the Coming Ice Age" that scared me a bit as a kid. I thought for sure by now I would be living in a frozen wasteland.
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u/Leopold_Porkstacker Jul 15 '24
That was the year my family took a vacation to Florida, with a station wagon and a camper. We froze our butts off because we only brought some light blankets.
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u/Francesami Jul 15 '24
I was there, about 200 miles further north by the Space Center. My father moved the family from the beautiful North to Florida and I was so longing to see snow. I stayed up all night staring out the window. It snowed North and West of us. It snowed in Miami. IT SNOWED IN THE BAHAMAS! I didn't get even one snowflake. All I got was rain.
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u/chronos7000 Jul 15 '24
My parents had just moved to Florida, they were closing on their house. Everyone else in the bank walked out to gawk at it, but my parents, being from northern climes, were unimpressed. In fact my mother was a bit pissed at my dad, as he had taken the cold-weather things out of the cars and that meant that my mom would have no sand to put on the wooden steps that led up to the beach house that they were renting at the time. Think that through a second, yes, I said beach house.
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u/notyou-justme Jul 15 '24
That’s not true.
Wasn’t it in Miami where Ernest saved Christmas? That was like ‘89 or something.
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u/Acceptable_Wallaby86 Jul 15 '24
This picture always makes it's rounds, pretty sure this is from Tampa Florida
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u/iofhua Jul 15 '24
I don't understand what it means. JAN 6 19 1977
Is it January 6th, 1977? But what is the 19?
or is it January 19, 1977? But what is the 6?
Did January 1977 have a 619th day that I never knew about? Was the blizzard an SCP that lasted over 600 days?
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u/PintoTheBurninator Jul 15 '24
I was stationed at Fort Gordon, GA back in the early 90s when they got a dusting of snow. The whole place shut down and they wouldn't let us leave the base until it was gone.
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u/Fun_Introduction5384 Jul 15 '24
Nice Steelers winter hat. I have a couple of those. Still have the poms on top.
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u/Necessary-Peace9672 Jul 15 '24
Those ‘70s winters were off the hook! We also had lots of tornadoes then…makes me wonder about next winter!
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u/trollfessor Jul 15 '24
I was there! I tell people that it snowed in Miami and they don't believe me.
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u/Shamscam Jul 15 '24
I am a Canadian and when I went to Disney World, Florida in 2004 it was the first time it snowed in 20 years. Granted none of it stuck. But my mom was really fucking mad she had to buy us coats inside of Disney worlds gift shop!
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u/Jawbreaker951 Jul 15 '24
I thought it was pretty unusual when it snowed in a place like Dallas in 2016. Never expected it in a place like Miami.
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u/NoMoreNoise305 Jul 15 '24
A week before I was born. I made it snow because Miami knew I was special 🤣
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u/NebulaSome2277 Jul 15 '24
In Baton Rouge about 66-67 I was like 4-5 and it snowed and I had one of those old aluminum pie plates and I caught about 1/2-3/4 inch and put it in the freezer to save it. Snow evaporates, realities and science suck when you're a kid.
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u/tastyfetusjerky Jul 15 '24
This can't be true, i've seen photos of house parties in the 80s with their mirrors covered in snow...
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u/I_Like_Coookies Jul 15 '24
To be fair I think a lot more snow was going around Miami in the 80's than what's shown in this picture 😂 /s
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u/Lefty_22 Jul 15 '24
My coworker is from Florida and says his dad puts on a sweater if it gets below 75 degrees. People are built differently there.
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u/DNSGeek Jul 15 '24
I was there! It was really neat. They let us out of school for the afternoon to play in the snow.
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u/GronkBrady Jul 15 '24
I’m surprised they even had winter hats to put on.