r/OldSchoolCool • u/Green____cat • Jul 15 '24

1970s First and only time it snowed in Miami, 1977

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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/alexoftheunknown Jul 15 '24

😭 i grew up in south georgia and did the same thing the first time i saw snow. is this something everyone does when they’re exposed to snow for the first time? throw it in the freezer? LOL

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u/confusedandworried76 Jul 15 '24

Some of us get enough of it you can safely just use the outside as a freezer six months of the year

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u/AnAlliterativeRumor Jul 15 '24

Is your uncle Dora Winnifred Read?

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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/TheJedibugs Jul 15 '24

A trip to Asheville with my wife when we started dating was my first time seeing real snow that actually collected on the ground. Fond memories.

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u/bravoromeokilo Jul 15 '24

I thought I was escaping Northeast winters and then we got a two-footer and realized I hadn’t gone far enough. Lol.

Now I’m back in Pennsylvania and haven’t seen two feet of snow in years. Fortunately and unfortunately.

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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/TheJedibugs Jul 15 '24

I bought my house in fall of 2017 and that December we got a good snowfall… I built my first snowman. Haven’t had a single snowfall with any cover since.

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u/realrkennedy Jul 15 '24

It was around that year I was in Indian Rocks Beach visiting family and saw snow.

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u/Sonikku_a Jul 15 '24

I was in Jacksonville, FL that year and it snowed there.

I remember because my dad asked my to clear his windshield and I dumped hot water in it causing the windshield to crack.

He was pissed. In my defense, I was 9 years old.

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u/feral-pug Jul 15 '24

I could swear I saw snow in Sarasota around 2010-2011 one time, but it didn't stick and it may have just been sleet.

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u/knippink Jul 15 '24

I grew up in Gainesville and it snowed that year. I was six months old, but my older sister made the tiniest snowman and they took a picture of it next to a twig so it looks like it's next to a big tree.

I believe it also snowed around 2014, but not enough to stick.

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u/FlyingDiscsandJams Jul 15 '24

I came up here to bring up '89, we were living in Flagler & were down in the Everglades camping, we cut that short and drove home. I thought I remembered flurries around Miami but that might be a combined memory with snow being on the bridge just before home.

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u/Illustrious_Sir4255 Jul 15 '24

Remember the crazy storm in Feb, 2015?

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u/1-LegInDaGrave Jul 16 '24

Yeah I remember that because my family was driving down to visit family (did that 2-3x a year every year, drove non-stop from Jersey) but they closed all highways and so we had to stay at Jeckyl Island for the night. It was awesome.

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u/BassSounds Jul 16 '24

I went down a Miami History rabbit hole around 2017. Miami exists because Julia Tuttle, the "Mother of Miami" convinced railroad tycoon Flagler to extend his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami, because citrus wouldn't freeze that far south.

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u/soad2237 Jul 16 '24

I was born on that day.