Winter Storm — Brantley, Georgia

2025-01-21 to 2025-01-22 · Brantley, Georgia

Event narrative

At 12:30 am on 1/22, the emergency manager measured a snow depth thus far of 0.63 inches in Waynesville. By 2:55 am, storm total snow depth was up to 2.06 inches. At 5:18 am, the public shared an image of snow that measured 3.8 inches in depth in Hoboken. At 8:30 am, a CoCoRaHS observer measured 1.8 inches of snow depth about 4 miles ESE of Hickox. At 9:30 am, the public shared a snow total amount of 3.6 inches about 1 mile ENE of Waynesville.

Wider weather episode

A rare winter storm impacted the southeast region as a surface low tracked eastward across the Gulf Coast region with cold air across the region. Snowfall of 3-5 inches impacted parts of SE GA roughly form Homerville to Jesup while a winter mix of sleet and freezing rain impacted locations south of Waycross and east toward the Golden Isles and Nassau County Florida. Ice accumulations caused major damage to trees, power lines and other utilities across the Golden Isles of SE GA and major traffic accidents along and near the Interstate 95 corridor from Glynn County GA to Nassau County FL. Sleet, patches of ice and some snow impacted the Sindey Lanier Bridge in Glynn County. The bridge was closed 1/22 and 1/23 due to falling ice from the high spans.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1226980. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.