Hurricane Harbor: A Little Bit of Snow History Repeating in the Deep South. Rare but Can Happen Especially With a Polar Vortex Plunging South.

My father used to say ....

..God has a funny sense of humor.

Will go with that one.

Hurricane House is covered in Snow :)

I've always loved the unusual as long as it doesn't involve a serial killer or something. My friend Sue Ellen would appreciate that joke but you know what I mean. A rare burst of snow in the Deep South or a busted forecast that was for a glazing suddenly delivers 6 inches! I've heard it said that busted forecasts usually bust most often when it's a big bust; historical weather the models missed and no one expected are always wild.

Josh, aka @iCyclone, named his beautiful new home in Bay Saint Louis "Hurricane House" and it's currently getting what to many people down that way would call a blizzard. Joking, but there's always that one person! Well definitely those who did not witness the 1963 Winter Storm that dumped that 10 inches of snow on his homesite.

I always double check this and indeed, 10 inches plus!

New Year's Eve storm of 1963 that obviously left snow on the ground as they started 1964!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year% You will note things began with a system down by the Yucatan that came together with the upper air patterns of COLD COLD COLD that dipped LOW LOW LOW and it snowed and snowed and snowed! Love history and I especially love weather history. History repeats. History is often one of the greatest stories you can read up on and often you can watch it in real time. In this case the Winter Storm was across a huge part of the USA. It was a deadly storm, check the link out below if you want to know.

Before the term Polar Vortex...

https://www.weather.gov/hun/hunsur_1963-12-31

In 1977 it snowed in Miami and when I say snow I don't mean that the ground was covered, but cold enough for it to drop enough flakes on car windshields to draw the date and take a picture. Actually a few areas far inland where the weather drops fast had enough to make a snowball, before it melted. That's what I'm told by people who never forgot seeing snow falling in Miami.

When I lived in LA I never saw snow fall.

A friend in Torrance saw some flakes.

Near the beach I believe.

Maybe

I know Malibu ... Pacific Palisades saw flakes!

I lived in West Hollywood in those days.

No snow of the weather variety.

As for my life in Raleigh.

I am in Raleigh today.

This is the most upside down weather map ever.

Normally it's reversed and the coast seems nada.

But hey it's 2025 and anything goes.

Right?
Right!

I'm in the Dusting to 2 inches.

I'll see soon enough.

Not holding my breath....

.....my hoping!

Think I'll call the big guy Desperado

So.......wherever you live and whatever you are doing I hope you are doing it with love and happiness and a good sense of humor. I know many hate winter, I am not a hater. I love it. A huge hawk like bird the shape of an owl stopped on my fence today and just sat looking around. Usually it's high up in the Pines, but seeing as it sits there for the longest time was wild. Different. Didn't want to go outside and scare it away. Was about 23 degrees up there in the trees so maybe was warmer on the fence? Who knows, but it flew away and life goes on today. Maybe I'll get a trace of snow, hope so, but not holding my breath and hoping to be pleasantly surprised. Not a political comment, but it's cute to see Marco Rubio make the move to DC in a new job as he's a "home boy" for me as I grew up in the West Miami area. Great place to live, while we lived there before moving to Miami Beach which is prettier but not the same. West Miami kids are great, an odd mix of cultures all living together out in the suburbs. I have a brother who lives by the Bay downtown and he goes out to Bird Road to get a taste of the old neighborhood and some of the better restaurants in Miami are actually out on Coral Way or on Bird Road and they are way more affordable than the ones in Brickell or Miami Beach!

Back in Raleigh watching for snow.

Tho probably will fall after dark.

If at all... trying to not get too

emotionally invest