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Between growing up in Northeastern PA and wintering down in Antarctica, I have gotten the chance to shovel snow in every month out of the year, nothing like shoveling a foot of snow on the 4th of July!
Did you mean 1982??? I find it insane if Atlanta went 118 years without a white Christmas! I know northern Florida had a white Christmas as recently as 1989.
Snow in most of the South is pretty rare in December. I was born in 1998, and I've only seen measurable snow in December outside of the mountains/Kentucky in 2010 (and 2002 but I barely remember that). Nonmeasurable snow is less uncommon in my experience and happens every few years. I was in North Carolina prior to 2016 and have since split my Decembers between NC and OK.
Snow in most of the South is pretty rare in December. I was born in 1998, and I've only seen measurable snow in December outside of the mountains/Kentucky in 2010 (and 2002 but I barely remember that). Nonmeasurable snow is less uncommon in my experience and happens every few years. I was in North Carolina prior to 2016 and have since split my Decembers between NC and OK.
As a southerner not from Kentucky nor the Appalachia, I can indeed say that December doesn't get much snow. It may be colder than February and especially March, but apparently it's either drier or gets most of its precipitation when temps aren't below-average. Most of our snowfalls occur in January, but even those don't stay on the ground for long (if they stick at all), with snowpack lasting a week being an extreme weather event by Tennessean standards.
However, I've also seen snow hit (although only if we're unlucky) in February, March, November and even April, and our past winter was almost completely snowless (if not for a single snowfall in mid-January that melted the same day, and flurries in late November, it would've been completely snowless).
Wow, so you've never seen snow in a southern state?
Yeah, I don't travel south much (or in winter) and I wouldn't time it where I went during a snowstorm. Wouldn't want to be there when the city shuts down. lol
Furthest north I seen snow was Vermont.
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