All States, Including FL, Have Seen Snow In Upside-Down 2024-25 Winter

FLORIDA — The winter of 2024-2025 has been abnormal, both because snow has fallen in Florida and each of the other U.S. states and because it has snowed — a lot — in areas that rarely need their shovels.

In this upside-down winter, southern Gulf states saw once-in-a-lifetime snowfall this past week. Some areas of the Florida Panhandle received 8 inches of snow, which, once confirmed by NOAA’s State Climate Extremes Committee, will shatter a record of 4 inches recorded in Milton that has stood since March 6, 1954, The Weather Channel reported.

The Pensacola metro has received 7.6 inches of snow so far this winter. Our state in general has received lighter-than-normal snow this winter, according to The Weather Channel’s records.

At the same time Gulf states were slammed with icy and snowy weather, some farther north areas typically buried in snow have received only a dusting this winter.

In fact, the storm totals in Lafayette and New Orleans, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; and Pensacola, Florida, are greater than the snowfall recorded since last fall in New York City, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City; Omaha, Nebraska; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

The snowfall deficits in those five cities range from a few inches to 22 inches, as is the case in Salt Lake City, according to The Weather Channel. Omaha and Sioux Falls have deficits of 11.7 inches and 16.8 inches, respectively.

Smaller deficits were reported in New York City, which is about 5 inches shy of its typical snowfall by this point in the winter, and Philadelphia, where totals are about 3 inches below normal.

Also noteworthy, with 9 inches of snow in Tuesday’s blizzard, Lafayette, Louisiana, had received almost as much snow in a single day as Chicago (9.2 inches) and Minneapolis (9.8 inches) have all winter. Both Chicago and Minneapolis are running snowfall deficits this winter.

Hawaii is a tropical state but receives snow every year at the 13,000-foot and higher elevations of The Big Island’s Mauna Kea volcanic summit, which saw its first snow of the season in late October. Snow is common at nearby Mauna Loa as well.

It’s not common for all 50 states to receive snow in a single season, but it does happen occasionally, notably in February 2010, according to NOAA.