What even is this? Credit: Screengrab via Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office/Twitter
While it may be a brisk 63 degrees here in Tampa, it’s quite a bit colder up in the frigid tundra we call the Panhandle.

This morning, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office tweeted a video of a cold white substance the northerners refer to as snow.

“Well how’s this for a temperature change?” said the agency. “From 75 degrees at 3 in the afternoon to snow at 3 am captured during patrol in the Lowe’s parking lot on Beal by B-Shift Central!”

Florida’s rare flurry comes as other parts of the U.S. experience their first major winter storm of 2022. 

Parts of the East Coast on Monday were blanketed with about a foot of snow in one of the biggest snow dumps in recent years. 

According to NBC News, this morning 29 million people were under a winter alert, stretching from Georgia through Massachusetts.

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This article appears in Dec 30, 2021 – Jan 5, 2022.

Colin Wolf has been working with weekly newspapers since 2007 and has been the Digital Editor for Creative Loafing Tampa since 2019. He is also the Director of Digital Content Strategy for CL's parent...