Taking bets

[Bostech]

There is chance of precipitation on Friday morning while temperature will be close to freezing.

Snow or no snow?


http://www.firstcoastnews.com/weather/

[Jason]

I would LOVE to see some snow but wouldn't bet on it.

[hooplady]

I wish it would.  Such a waste to be this freakin' cold and not be able to pelt somebody with a snowball!

[north miami]

My sisiter got mad a Florida during August a few years ago and moved to Loveland,Colorado.Now ready to come back.(though not the City of Jacksonville-more like north of Gainesville)

Point is,much talk about the 'dry cold' of the interior west.Well,today at noon in Jacksonville it was 45 degrees....and humidity: 30 %. Colder in Loveland....and much higher humidity.

We get to enjoy glorious weather on each side of a North Florida cold snap.And we don't have to wait until late April...or longer....for Spring.

I spent Saturday night out at the camp abut thirty miles west odf downtown.Tent camp.Big fire.

[Bostech]

You can only imagine how cold is up north.
With wind chill easily below 0,in some places 20-30 degrees.
Cold cuts your breath.

[Jason]

I'm a Florida native that hasn't even seen real snow.  Being able to make a little snow man in my front yard or have a snowball fight would be a first for me!

[fsujax]

Jason, you gotta get out more! you werent here in 1989 when it snowed?

[Jason]

I was in Daytona.  Caught a few snowflakes on my tongue but that is it. 

[reednavy]

I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but the lower atmosphere is simply way too dry right now to support anything. This next system isn't a guarantee, as models are backing off on developing it and it's intensity, and even then it'll take likely over 12 hours to get the air moist enough to support any precip below 5,000ft. I've been here since 2006 as a meteorologist, and I've never seen a dew point reading in the single digits here until yesterday. NAS JAX at one point registered 8, which was temp needed to reach saturation.

Even if it does, which I'm 99% doubting, it will last only a few short hours before changing to all rain.

[Captain Zissou]

Reednavy is always spot on with weather predictions.  Honestly, if he says it, I believe it. 

That being said, I hope he's wrong and we get snow!!!!!!

[Dog Walker]

More likely any precip will be sleet or frozen rain.  Ugh!  Blast, where is global warming when you need it.  My dogs love the cold, but this Florida boy hates it.

[reednavy]

The only way it'll happen tomorrow is enough we can moisten up the atmosphere enough and get this system to wrap up. However, the current dew point is 14, and this last front shunted the typical GOMEX moisture well into the Caribbean. Hell, this front brought temps in the 50s to the mountains in Cuba and parts of the Bahamas.

If you want to see some snow, travel up to Nashville tomorrow, where they're expecting anywhere from 2-7 inches and single digit lows. It'll be so cold it won't be typical heavy, wet Southern snow. Instead it will be more like Northern Plains snow, the kind that is like powder and blows/drifts all over the place.

[Captain Zissou]

So..... If I were to boil a large pot of water for the next 3 days, I could potentially make enough moisture for snow??

[reednavy]

If the pot was the size of the county, it is possible, lol.

[Bostech]

Ehh,we should do what Chinese are doing.Make some artificial snow and I mean from skies.

http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/artificial-snow-china-closes-12-highways