SNOW IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: Flurries fell overnight

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — Southwest Florida woke up to a winter blast Sunday morning, complete with a rare sight in the area — snow flurries.

Check out this viewer video of snow falling in East Lehigh Acres:

Early Sunday morning on the coast, winds were strong on Nokomis Beach, where gusts reached as high as 50 mph along the coastline. A cold weather advisory was issued for coastal counties, including Charlotte County.

One Fox 4 viewer sent in this picture of an icicle hanging from her home in Lehigh Acres.

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Click here to see the snow falling in Bradenton:

And there were even flurries as far south as Cape Coral:

In Nokomis, temperatures dropped to the upper 30s, but with the strong overnight winds, it felt like the 20s. Just a couple minutes inland, snow flurries were falling — small but there was snow in Southwest Florida!

Neighbors captured the rare weather on camera. Linnette Ortiz in Fort Myers said she was in shock when she saw flurries around 7:30 Saturday night.

Fox 4 Community Correspondent Victoria Quevedo spent the overnight hours on the search for falling show. Click here to see what she found:

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