❄️Mom captures “snow fight” in Florida during frigid temps

CENTRAL FLORIDA, USA – It was like a Christmas miracle when some Central Florida households woke as much as falling sleet and flakes in some areas Sunday.

Some households captured the snow-like situations and shared them with Information 6 on PINS.

Lindsey from Rockledge pinned a video of her son having a “snow struggle” on Christmas morning with the caption: “We bought ‘snow’ in Rockledge! Merry Christmas everybody.” A person is seen on the video making a snowball from the ice.

Mike from Rockledge additionally shared video exhibiting sleet falling in Rockledge. Towards the black truck, you possibly can see what he calls “a Florida white Christmas… form of.”

One other household in Cocoa loved the white stuff that fell on their trampoline sharing a photograph with the caption: “Snow in Cocoa on Christmas morning 2022.”

However was it snow? Information 6 Meteorologist Troy Bridges says technically, no. Bridges mentioned it was sleet describing the layers within the ambiance.

“It’s like a layer cake. You’ll be able to have rain or moisture fall from the higher ranges of the ambiance as rain. After which it hits a layer that’s a lot colder and freezes. Then it could actually attain one other layer nearer to the floor – like in Brevard County Sunday – that could possibly be above freezing inflicting the freezing rain to partially soften however nonetheless chilly sufficient for it to fall to the bottom as sleet. Not snow,” mentioned Bridges.

A pup in Merritt Island was not sure what was taking place when sleet started to fall. Brett shared some video exhibiting the wild climate and the canine standing by the door below the lined porch. Even the canine was in disbelief.

Whereas Brevard County noticed a lot of the sleet in Central Florida, that didn’t preserve others from posting pictures and movies of ‘icicle-like’ creations from areas like Groveland and Maitland.

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In accordance with Bridges, there have been onerous freeze warnings in impact for northern counties and freeze warnings in impact for a big a part of Central Florida on Monday.

Excellent news, when you’re not a fan of the chilly climate, temperatures are anticipated to rise within the subsequent few days.

Anticipate a excessive of 63 levels on Tuesday and a excessive of 70 by Wednesday.

Anticipate center and higher 70s for Thursday and Friday with 80s returning for New Yr’s Eve day and New Yr’s Day.

Rain probabilities return to 40% on Saturday and 30% on Sunday.