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.

Snow in the Sunshine State doesn't happen very often. But it did. And here are the photos from Pensacola to Yulee to prove it.

Florida's capital city could be in line for a historic and thrilling snow day as a freak winter storm slides across the Gulf Coast.

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.

The Gulf Coast is digging out from a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm that struck from Texas to Florida, closing airports and crippling roadways.

A historic winter storm has blanketed the southern United States with record-breaking snowfall, bringing unexpected chaos to regions like Florida. Dia Riley of Scripps News reports from Tampa on the Morning Rush about the astonishing snow accumulations reaching nearly 10 inches in North Florida,