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

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.

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The restaurant features full-service dining, beach access, and a courtyard with a ton-of-fun sand pile, foam pit, games, retail shopping, stages for live music and more.

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.

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,

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.

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.