Florida, and 8.9 inches in Pensacola, the weather service office in Mobile, Alabama said Wednesday. Interstate 10 closed all the way to Tallahassee Per Florida Department of Transportation, Interstate 10 from the Alabama state line to Tallahassee is closed.
"Not your typical beach day! Our lifeguard tower is trading sunshine for snowflakes. Stay warm, everyone!" Tybee Island Ocean Rescue posted on social media.
While local officials urged drivers to stay off the roads, nothing was going to keep Pensacolians from enjoying a rare snow day.
The Pensacola area is forecast to receive between 4 to 6 inches of snow, but the National Weather Service says areas south of I-10 could see more.
Snowing on the beach in Florida? See a photo gallery of the unprecedented amount of snow that fell on northern Florida on Tuesday.
A Florida Lottery player hit the jackpot in the latest Fantasy 5 drawing, results show. A Fantasy 5 player netted a life-changing lottery prize in Florida, officials said. A ticket sold in Pensacola matched five numbers in the evening drawing Wednesday,
A winter storm pummeled the southern United States with ice and snow Tuesday. Here's how much snow fell in Florida, Texas, Alabama and more.
The rare Southern storm prompted this headline from the Anchorage Daily News: "Hey, New Orleans, please send some of your snow to Anchorage."
As of Wednesday morning, Mobile, Alabama, recorded a total of 7.5 inches of snow, surpassing the previous record of 3.6 inches set in 1973. Pensacola got a record 7.6 inches of snow, beating its previous record of 3 inches reported in 1895, according to USA Today.
Florida just saw the most snow on record, with a preliminary 8.8 inches observed in Milton, which is north of Pensacola.
The Gulf Coast is digging out from a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm that struck from Texas to Florida, closing airports and crippling roadways.
Snowfall records were broken this week in the Gulf Coast states of Texas, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana ... inches was recorded in Milton, north of Pensacola, breaking the state's 130-year ...