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

In anticipation of severe winter weather and snow coming to Alabama, including the Gulf Coast, several school systems have announced changes to their schedule for this week. The National Weather Service said a “significant” winter storm is becoming more likely for south Alabama on Tuesday.

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 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,

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.

Snow started falling on Monday across the Lone Star State because it wasn’t until Tuesday that records across the Gulf Coast were smashed. New Orleans officially recorded 8" of snow with plenty of reports of 8-12" around the Big Easy.

In preparation for winter weather, more than 400 Alabama National Guard members have been called to duty to assist local first responders for severe freezing we

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Approximately 400 members of the Alabama National Guard are being activated ahead of a storm system that will include severe freezing weather, snow, and ice affecting ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has declared a state of emergency for 39 counties ahead of severe winter weather and snow in ... The Alabama National Guard will be activated as part of the state of ...