Many people who don’t normally get to experience snow found unique ways to enjoy the rare sight this week as a historic winter storm moved across the South.
A historic winter storm in south Alabama on Tuesday broke Mobile’s 130-year-old snowfall record and brought a rarely seen covering of snow to the beaches of Gulf Shores. But while it gave folks in Mobile an exceedingly uncommon opportunity to build snowmen,
It's been a while since it last snowed in Mobile, but snow is in the forecast for the city on Tuesday, and a winter storm watch is in effect. The photo above is from the Mobile office of the National Weather Service from a rare south Alabama snow in December of 1996. Joe Maniscalco/National Weather Service
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WBRC) - The Alabama National Guard had a busy January assisting with winter weather. This week, crews helped with the snow event in south Alabama. Lieutenant Colonel Josh Henderson said no matter where you are from, 10 inches of snow will shut everything down.
Snowmen took the place of sandcastles on an Alabama beach, as snow was still on the ground two days after a historic winter storm hit the southern part of the state.On Thursday, January 23, the City of Orange Beach posted a video on X showing a snowman sitting right by the water’s edge,
A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida Panhandle, Georgia and the coastal Carolinas on Wednesday after breaking snow records in Texas and Louisiana, treating the region to unaccustomed perils and wintertime joy.
Seeing snow, and this much of it at that is a weather miracle for Lafayette, Chalmette, and Gulf Shores, Alabama. The Gulf Coast is seeing record-breaking snowfall across the board that people will reminisce about in the years to come.
Roughly 40 million people from Texas to the Carolinas are under winter weather alerts as a rare winter storm amid bone-chilling temperatures brings potentially historic snowfall to cities unused to harsh,
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.
The dubbed "once-in-a-generation" snowstorm that hit Alabama transformed Orange Beach into a winter wonderland. Just after the snowstorm hit the Gulf Coast, the City of Orange Beach took to Instagram to share a video of the unique weather.
And, it’s bringing a rare snowfall to the sugar white beaches of Gulf Shores. The National Weather Service in Mobile said that as of 6:10 p.m. Tuesday, 7.5 inches of snow had fallen at its office in west Mobile. That broke the all-time record for a snow event of 6 inches in 1895.
The National Weather Service's Lake Charles, Louisiana, office issued its first-ever blizzard warning Tuesday. The NWS' Mobile office reposted video on X of two people having a snowball fight in Orange Beach,