News Cold Weather Advisory Issued for Disney World Area Jan 22 2025: Freezing Wind Chills Expected

[LAKid53]

Never thought I'd hear these words uttered in Florida, but whiteout conditions on Pensacola Bridge going over the Bay.

 

[monothingie]

That’s textbook “New Jersey road amnesia”

There’s an ointment for that

The NJ Turnpike is an ethereal place where bad drivers live forever.

 

[Ayla]

Currently snowing in Pensacola. Yay 2025

And Galveston, Houston and New Orleans.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

The NJ Turnpike is an ethereal place where bad drivers live forever.

Amen…life ends somewhere between 7 and 18X

 

[HauntedPirate]

I'm honestly more concerned about FL citrus crops than anything else.

 

[LAKid53]

I'm honestly more concerned about FL citrus crops than anything else.

What citrus crops? We're plowing under orange groves as fast as you can say "new development".

 

[vikescaper]

Minnesotans can't drive in rain. Or snow. And schools closed here today, but for -20F temps.

There was a blizzard the day before I left the upper Midwest for Florida. That was the last time I drove in snow. If it ever snowed in my part of Florida, I am staying at home that day. I don’t want anything to do with that!

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

There was a blizzard the day before I left the upper Midwest for Florida. That was the last time I drove in snow. If it ever snowed in my part of Florida, I am staying at home that day. I don’t want anything to do with that!

I lived, and drove, in snowy areas until my early 30s when I moved to Vegas, driving home from Christmas in SLC this year I got caught in a snowstorm and felt like a new driver again, I moved to the right and found a semi going 55 to follow and felt like an old lady with all the locals zooming by me at 65 to 75mph. It’s funny how quickly you lose your nerve when you aren’t used to driving regularly in certain road conditions.

Given a choice I’ll never drive in snow again.

 

[networkpro]

Snow belongs on TV, not in the front yard

 

[MisterPenguin]

In general, if it's actively snowing, and it's 'sticking' to the roads, you should not be driving on it at all.

The snow reduces visibility.

Accumulating snow is always slippery.

Most snow-accidents happen while it is snowing. And even if you have super-duper winter tires and 4 wheel drive. That doesn't stop someone else who doesn't have those things from crashing into you.

And if there's an accident, you now put all the first responders in a dangerous situation.

Once it stops snowing and plowing and salting takes place, then you can drive on it... carefully. And if you're in a state that doesn't have plows or salt, wait for the natural above-freezing temperature of the ground and air melt it away.

 

[ToTBellHop]

In general, if it's actively snowing, and it's 'sticking' to the roads, you should not be driving on it at all.

The snow reduces visibility.

Accumulating snow is always slippery.

Most snow-accidents happen while it is snowing. And even if you have super-duper winter tires and 4 wheel drive. That doesn't stop someone else who doesn't have those things from crashing into you.

And if there's an accident, you now put all the first responders in a dangerous situation.

Once it stops snowing and plowing and salting takes place, then you can drive on it... carefully. And if you're in a state that doesn't have plows or salt, wait for the natural above-freezing temperature of the ground and air melt it away.

If anyone living by the Great Lakes never drove while it’s snowing, they wouldn’t go to work or school between November 1 and April 30. I learned to drive in snow at age 16 because they don’t close schools in Western New York every time it snows.

Where I went to college in Canton, NY, roads stayed snow-covered for months every winter. It never melted.

There are airports where the runway is snow.

 

[griffin ferrari]

If anyone living by the Great Lakes never drove while it’s snowing, they wouldn’t go to work or school between November 1 and April 30. I learned to drive in snow at age 16 because they don’t close schools in Western New York every time it snows.

Where I went to college in Canton, NY, roads stayed snow-covered for months every winter. It never melted.

There are airports where the runway is snow.

Can agree here.... fellow Upstate NY resident. Some days you have a death grip on the wheel as your 15 on the highway and someone is in a jeep or a big pick up and blasts past you doing the speed limit. very very fun

 

[ToTBellHop]

Can agree here.... fellow Upstate NY resident. Some days you have a death grip on the wheel as your 15 on the highway and someone is in a jeep or a big pick up and blasts past you doing the speed limit. very very fun

There’s always that one reckless idiot! I can drive safely in the snow but I worry about what someone else will do.

 

[JoeCamel]

What citrus crops? We're plowing under orange groves as fast as you can say "new development".

And greening, sadly Florida citrus is done.


For the others are you saying it is hard and dangerous to drive on snow covered roads? Really?

 

[Chi84]

There’s always that one reckless idiot! I can drive safely in the snow but I worry about what someone else will do.

One?!

 

[HauntedPirate]

And greening, sadly Florida citrus is done.


For the others are you saying it is hard and dangerous to drive on snow covered roads? Really?

It is, but usually because of the idiots who don’t know how to drive when it’s snowing and/or with on snow on the roads. The latter is never fun.

Anywho… I predict BB is closed again tomorrow.

 

[Ayla]

In general, if it's actively snowing, and it's 'sticking' to the roads, you should not be driving on it at all.

The snow reduces visibility.

Accumulating snow is always slippery.

Most snow-accidents happen while it is snowing. And even if you have super-duper winter tires and 4 wheel drive. That doesn't stop someone else who doesn't have those things from crashing into you.

And if there's an accident, you now put all the first responders in a dangerous situation.

Once it stops snowing and plowing and salting takes place, then you can drive on it... carefully. And if you're in a state that doesn't have plows or salt, wait for the natural above-freezing temperature of the ground and air melt it away.

That advice is laughable for people that live where it regularly snows. We'd never leave our houses if that was true.

 

[EagleScout610]

That advice is laughable for people that live where it regularly snows. We'd never leave our houses if that was true.

Nah, it's just common safety

 

[FigmentForever96]

Indeed, very snowy in the panhandle this evening. Historic for my lifetime

 

[LAKid53]

View attachment 838804Indeed, very snowy in the panhandle this evening. Historic for my lifetime

And it's still coming down.