Florida: From Waterspouts to Snow

UPDATE: According to this page, not even a trace of snow has ever fallen in the state in Florida, though technically I don't know if sleet would count as snow or not (probably). So if even a "trace" of sleet is recorded officially, the record for no winter precip in Florida in April. will be broken.

ORIGINAL POST:

I neglected to point out Friday that there were quite a few waterspout reports from the Florida Keys on Thursday. Here's a map of where the Local Storm Reports came in and descriptions of the 'spouts (or 'spout):

- AN OFF-DUTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD SOUTH OF MARATHON.
- A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC REPORTED A VERY THIN WATERSPOUT BEGINNING TO DISSIPATE SOUTH OF MARATHON.
- A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC REPORTED A VERY LARGE WATERSPOUT NORTH OF MILE MARKER 16 ON U.S. 1.
- A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A LARGE WATERSPOUT ABOUT ONE MILE NORTH OF THE BOW CHANNEL BRIDGE
- ATRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A WATERSPOUT AND A FUNNEL CLOUD ABOUT ONE MILE NORTH OF THE BOW CHANNEL BRIDGE

The waterspouts were not covered by local media, according to Google News.

But yesterday the cold air met the northern part of the state, as I reported on, and this morning WeatherMatrix Member Thomas Giella of KN4LF.com reports: