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 also caused more than a few problems around the state.
Another day of dangerously cold weather is ahead Wednesday for New Jersey before conditions start to gradually improve during an extended stretch without any signs of snow, forecasters say. High temperatures on Wednesday will remain in the teens and 20s and low temperatures in parts of the state are below zero,
Parts of Massachusetts recorded temperatures well below zero on Wednesday night — but what will the daytime bring?
The NWS extends a Cold Weather Advisory for the region including parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and southeast Pennsylvania.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The National Weather Service has posted cold weather advisories and warnings with temperatures expected to plunge below zero in most of the state. The entire state is under a Cold Weather Advisory. The advisories last through Wednesday.
Another new change is the Wind Chill Advisory will be renamed to "Cold Weather Advisory" as shown below with the explanation. The hard freeze watches and warnings will be renamed and consolidated to "Freeze Watch" and "Freeze Warning" as shown below with the explanation.
Baton Rouge is under an extreme cold warning until 10 a.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service said. The high today is expected to be 31 degrees, with a low of 16 degrees
The National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Watch on Wednesday for the north Georgia area. It will go into effect Friday morning through Saturday morning. How much snow will Georgia get?
Snow covered the white-sand beaches of normally sunny vacation spots, including Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Pensacola Beach, Florida. The heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain hitting parts of the Deep South came as a blast of Arctic air plunged much of the Midwest and the eastern U.S. into a deep freeze.
Hobby Airport in Houston, which both plan to resume operations later Wednesday after temporarily suspending them for the storm. Cities like New Orleans, Charleston, South Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida are also seeing major cancellations.