Snow in South Florida 35 years ago today: The only flakes on record in West Palm Beach

This morning we woke to rather mild temperatures in the 60s, but 35 years ago today folks all the way to Miami were waking to snow - the only snowfall on record in West Palm Beach.

At its coldest that day, the mercury dipped to 29 degrees in West Palm Beach.

Snowflakes fell in the Treasure Coast and as far south as Homestead. It was a brief flurry that left just enough of the white stuff for school children to scoop up a snow-ball's worth off car hoods. The remnants melted by 9:30 a.m., according to news accounts of the day.

Since then, various spots in the state have seen some flurries.

On Dec. 23, 1989, snow fell in north Florida closing bridges over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville and icing Interstate 95 from there south to St. Augustine. Snow dusted that city again the day after Christmas in 2010.

Brevard and Volusia counties have seen flakes in 2003 and 2008.

Of course, those flakes were flukes.

In 2007, The Palm Beach Post printed the mean temperature for this day each year since:

1977 - 37 degrees

1978 - 72 degrees

1979 - 65 degrees

1980 - 67 degrees

1981 - 52 degrees

1982 - 66 degrees

1983 - 62 degrees

1984 - 71 degrees

1985 - 60 degrees

1986 - 70 degrees

1987 - 76 degrees

1988 - 72 degrees

1989 - 73 degrees

1990 - 74 degrees

1991 - 73 degrees

1992 - 69 degrees

1993 - 68 degrees

1994 - 66 degrees

1995 - 66 degrees

1996 - 66 degrees

1997 - 46 degrees

1998 - 65 degrees

1999 - 71 degrees

2000 - 65 degrees

2001 - 76 degrees

2002 - 71 degrees

2003 - 50 degrees

2004 - 69 degrees

2005 - 60 degrees

2006 - 63 degrees

2007 - upper 70s