A thaw is much needed as state and local officials struggle to clear roadways left unnavigable by the unprecedented Southern storm.
An historic January storm dumped more deep snow along the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday after bringing Houston and New Orleans to a near standstill over the past two days and burying parts of Florida's Panhandle with accumulations more typical of Chicago.
R​oads were still closed Thursday morning after a historic winter storm hit The South, bringing inches of snow to areas not used to seeing any snowfall at all. D​rivers in Southeast Louisiana were urged to continue to stay off the roads on Thursday morning,
Pensacola had official total of 7.6 inches, while Milton hit 8.8. Unofficial totals by Weather Service could be as high as 9.8 inches.
As a winter storm moves through Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, some school districts are beginning to announce if classes will resume.
For the first time in a long time, Florida is seeing measurable snow across the Panhandle. Many of those snowfall totals are breaking the state's 4-inch record. While Central Florida isn't forecasted to have snow, it's worth noting the last time it snowed in our area was in 2008.
If confirmed, Florida had its highest snowfall total since 1954. As many as 15,000 Duke Energy customers lost power at one point.
A 1,400-pound great white shark pinged in Florida waters for the 9th time this month. Wednesday's ping came right after snow blanketed North Florida.
At least three deaths were attributed to the cold as dangerous below-freezing temperatures with even colder wind chills settled in.
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.
Light snow fell on this panhandle city Wednesday as the last remnant of an unprecedented, deadly storm rolled out to sea after smashing snow records from here to New Orleans and casting a blanket of ice across a region not targeted by such a severe wintry assault in generations.