Snowmen in Alabama? Sledding in Mississippi? From Texas to Georgia, snow blankets the South

MSN Web site ^ | 9 Dec 2017 | Jenny Jarvie and Jaweed Kaleem

[Alas Babylon!]

ATLANTA. Snow blanketed a vast swath of the Deep South on Friday, triggering a flurry of winter weather warnings that closed businesses and schools, canceled hundreds of flights and caused traffic gridlock. It also unleashed a flurry of snowman construction and sledding in places more accustomed to sunshine than snow.

The storm dropped a rare coating of snow as far south as Brownsville, Texas - near the border of Mexico - up through southern Louisiana and parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the southern Appalachians.

"This is an unusual event - to see snow falling this early in the season all the way from Texas and the Gulf Coast region to Georgia," said Laura Pagano, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Atlanta/Peachtree City office. "It has happened before, but not often."

More than 200,000 customers across the region lost power as snow downed branches and power lines.

[Alas Babylon!]

I got about an inch, maybe two in places in Southern Alabama. Suns out now and shining hard, it will all be gone by noon.

[BenLurkin]

[BwanaNdege]

Piedmont & Foothills of western North Carolina got about 4” yesterday & last night, 2” more expected this morning. The mountains got a lot more.

The ground is warm and the air temp is 32 degrees, so it won’t be here long.

[texas booster]

Nothing south of Dallas but a few scattered snowflakes, but my friends in Victoria kept texting pictures of this white stuff coming down.

School was delayed two hours, and a few snowmen were built up.

[BwanaNdege]

Excellent!

[hal ogen]

It is called winter. This would unusual in July.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Well gosh danggitt! Me and cousin gonna build us one of them snowwimmen!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I got about an inch...it will all be gone by noon.

June, in my case.

[relictele]

‘This is an unusual event’

Boy, you can’t slip anything past the geniuses at the NWS!

[Thibodeaux]

snow boobs fall off

[relictele]

Those pesky Soviets! They’re still around?

Makes sense I guess. Time said we couldn’t defeat them.

[Alas Babylon!]

Maybe, but you don’t experience our Augusts, so be happy!

[metmom]

Same here.

Snow.

Pffttt......

[ohioman]

This is unusual for the Deep South!

[EQAndyBuzz]

1.9 inches fell in San Antonio.

[Paine in the Neck]

It was a weird weather map that showed snow from Tamaulipas, Mexico up the Gulf coast of Texas, through Louisiana. Don’t see that too often.

[hal ogen]

I guess if “every so often” is your definition of “unusual”.

[ealgeone]

metro atl reporting anywhere from 2-8 inches of the stuff.

[RegulatorCountry]

I'm in NC near the VA border, we got a little over 5" of heavy wet snow that stuck on everything, bent softwood trees over, power has flickered several times. Still snowing lightly.

[Dacula]

Just enough to cover the cigarette butts and trash along the side of the road.