Snow in Trenton? No, it's a lot of hail
![Workers with the Trenton Public Works Department cleared accumulated hail from city streets Wednesday morning. [City of Trenton Public Safety Department via Facebook]](/gcdn/authoring/2019/03/27/NTGS/ghows-LK-85142847-f979-23bb-e053-0100007f8317-42ba29f5.jpeg?width=660&height=440&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
Wednesday morning in Trenton looked less like early spring in Florida and more like a northern city in winter.
Photographs posted on the city of Trenton Public Safety Department's Facebook showed roadways covered with hail, which fell in the early morning hours Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Meteorologist Andrew Kennedy confirmed that pea-sized hail fell on Trenton. Other North Central Florida residents have also reported hail.
Meteorologist Scott Cordero said hail storms had been reported across the state, including in Old Town, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne, Tallahassee and Mayo in Lafayette County. The hail seen across the state ranged from pea-sized to the size of golf balls, he said. Cities surrounding around Trenton may also have seen hail but no instances had been reported to the National Weather Service.
The Trenton hail, which resembled snow, covered the ground, and photographs show front-end loaders working to push the hail off the road.
It's not an everyday sight in Florida.
"What the hail," Facebook commenter Kimber Jones wrote on the post.
Kennedy said a cold core system hovering at about 8,400 feet made it easy for hail to form. Trenton residents on Facebook described hearing the hail pop on their homes' roofs.
"First day of Spring was March 20th," wrote Facebook user Brian Barry. "Florida just said nope, have some hail and possibly some snow."
Trenton officials warned motorists to be careful driving on city streets in the early morning hours Wednesday, but the ice has since melted, said Matthew Rexcoat, the city's public safety director.
Rexcoat said he dispatched the city's Public Works Department at about 4:30 a.m. to clear the roadways.
"All the ice has melted; we just have some piles off the side of the roadway, but all the roads are cleared," he said.
Being a small Florida city, Trenton wasn't ready for such an anomaly.
"We weren't prepared for this," Rexcoat said, finding the humor in an unusual situation. "We had front-end loaders out there clearing the ice. You don't expect in spring in Florida you'd be clearing three- to four-inches of ice off the roads."
Rexcoat said the worst-hit roads were cleared by 6 a.m.