Coastal Alabama and the Florida Panhandle enjoyed a rare southern snowstorm Tuesday that delighted children with snow angels and powdery play in a scene felt plucked from a Hallmark Christmas movie. But the joy of tramping through fresh snow quickly gave way Wednesday to the icy realization that roads remain impassable,

Tuesday and Wednesday from Texas to Florida along the Gulf Coast will see extreme winter weather including snowfall and freezing rain. Significant snowfall and/or freezing rain accumulations can't be ruled out in Houston, New Orleans, and Tallahassee. pic.twitter.com/028Ndta2vl

Milton saw 10 inches of snow - and Pensacola 8.9 - in a historic winter storm storm that shattered the previous 130-year record.

A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more used to hurricane dismissals than snow days.

Snowing on the beach in Florida? See a photo gallery of the unprecedented amount of snow that fell on northern Florida on Tuesday.

Alabama is struggling to warm up after a major winter storm blew through the Yellowhammer State. Frigid temperatures are predicted to continue over the next few days, according to local meteorologists,

The National Weather Service said on Jan. 3, 2018, parts of north Florida, along with south Georgia, saw snow accumulate thanks to the first winter storm the Sunshine State had seen since 1989. Georgia of course saw the largest accumulations, up to 2 inches, but the snowfall in Florida was still measurable.

The National Weather Service in Mobile said that as of 6:10 p.m. 7.5 inches of snow had fallen at its office in west Mobile. That breaks the old all-time record of 6 inches from 1895. That’s not the only record that was broken on Tuesday.

Arctic air grips the central and eastern U.S., bringing record-breaking cold, dangerous wind chills, and historic snowfall. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

A major winter storm that slammed Texas and the northern Gulf Coast is spreading heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida panhandle and eastern Carolinas.

Snow fell in Houston and prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border. Snow covered the white-sand beaches of normally sunny vacation spots, including Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Pensacola Beach.

As Florida braces for impacts from a winter storm, schools and universities in northern Florida are canceling classes ahead of the winter weather.