snow in tampa
January 19, 1977 was an unusual day in Tampa Bay. The Tribune remembers that it snowed in Tampa. Steve Otto was there, too. Do any of you remember that day?
I’d love to see some more photographs. If any of you have pictures of the snow in Tampa, please email us and we’ll get ‘em scanned and posted here.
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January 19th, 2007 at 9:38 am
It also snowed December 25th, 1989. I do have pictures of that somewhere, but they are buried deep. It was enough to dust parked cars. My mom has pictures from the 1977 incedent. I was only a year old.
January 19th, 2007 at 10:10 am
I remember in St. Pete that there was only enough snow to blow against the curbs so there were six-inch-wide “snowdrifts” lining the streets. Florida Power couldn’t keep up with the power demand so they started rolling blackouts. When the power went out at St. Pete Catholic they sent us home (late morning). So, being typical HS students, our first stop was to pick up some cold six-packs of Busch to warm up the rest of the day.
January 19th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I remember the snow from 89 that Bryan was talking about, though all the pictures I have of it were taken in Orlando where my brother and I were visiting our mom and our newborn baby brother..
January 19th, 2007 at 11:41 am
I was sick that day. Home from school. My mother did not want me to go out play in it. My sister at USF had snowball fights with her friends.
January 20th, 2007 at 12:06 am
I was nine years old when that storm hit in 1977. I remember it well. It was weird, but fun. A few years later, we moved to Tennessee, when my mom married some hillbilly. Then we saw snow every winter. I was never happier than when I returned to Florida for good in 1994.
January 20th, 2007 at 12:35 am
Oh man ! Thanks for the very cool memories. I worked at a bank then, it was my first ‘grown up’ job. We all opened the roof door (very much against audit procedures, thank you) and went out on the roof and scraped up enough snow to make some balls and a snowman. My Mom woke me up and the look on her face and the memory of it is priceless. She had not seen snow in many years … I was REALLY happy to get this date to add to a journal I wish I had kept every day.
Thanks again !
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I was an 8th grader at Webb Jr. High in Tampa. We were on the split shift. The 9th graders went in the early morning and the 8th graders went later in the day. I remember that the 9th graders had to go to school that morning, but the 2nd shift got a snow day.
The whole city was pretty much shut down because no one was prepared for such weather. As I recall, there were a record amount of car wrecks and injuries that day.
My oldest daughter is the same age now as I was then. It would be something to have that experience duplicated for her, as I am not too sure that she believes me when I tell her about the time it snowed in Tampa.