Rare snowfall blanketed Orange Beach in Alabama. Footage shows the unusual winter spectacle, with the sandy shores covered in fresh ice on Tuesday,1. Reports have described the scene as 'history in the making'.

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,

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.

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

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.

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,

According to the National Weather Service ... which was recorded in central Alabama during the historic blizzard of 1993. Tuesday’s snowfall was heavy enough to coat the usually sunny beaches of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. Neighboring Florida not ...

Snow totals in Louisiana have broken records. Parts of Florida, Texas and Georgia have also accumulated several inches of snow.

The snowstorm currently lashing the Gulf Coast is being described as a once in a generation weather event, the National Weather Service said Monday.

This is the moment residents in Baldwin County, Alabama woke up to find Orange Beach blanketed in snow on January 21. Winter Storm Enzo dropped a record 10 inches of snow in some areas as temperatures plunged to 4°F in the region.

NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center is maintaining a Level 1 out of 5 risk for parts of south and east Alabama on Friday.

On Thursday at 4:27 a.m. an updated rip current statement was issued by the National Weather Service valid from 6 p.m. until Saturday 6 a.m. for Mobile and Baldwin counties.