Today, January 21, 2025, a winter storm barreled through the southern United States, depositing snow in cities like Houston and New Orleans. According to the Associated Press, snow plows were at the ready in a particularly surprising locale—the Florida panhandle.

Heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain are spreading east across parts of the Florida panhandle and eastern Carolinas, closing roads and schools and grounding flights.

A rare winter storm churned across the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday (January 21), bringing heavy snow, ice and wind gusts to a region where flurries are unusual, while much of the United States remained in a deep freeze.