The National Weather Service and European global models show increasing chances of snow in Florida on Monday and Tuesday night.

A winter weather system headed toward North Florida prompted the governor to issue a state of emergency for the region on Monday.

North Florida residents from Pensacola to Jacksonville are bracing for what is expected to be a historic, once-in-a-lifetime winter storm.

Parts of North Florida are experiencing winter weather on Tuesday afternoon as a winter storm warning has been issued for the panhandle and Big Bend regions of the state.

Snow fell in Houston and prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border. Snow covered the white-sand beaches of normally sunny vacation spots, including Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Pensacola Beach.

“North winds 25 to 30 knots with gusts up to 45 knots. Seas 7 to 10 feet, occasionally to 13 feet,” the NWS marine forecast from Fernandina Beach south to St. Augustine said. “Intracoastal waters very rough. Showers. Freezing rain after midnight.”

With the chances of a historic Florida snow or ice storm inching upward, forecasters may issue a rare winter storm watch for a region more accustomed to squall lines and tropical threats.

Just how much snow & freezing rain fell in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia? A look inside the numbers from the Jacksonville-area winter storm.

A strong winter storm blasting through the United States, including the Gulf Coast, is bringing the rare sight of snow and ice to northern Florida, and frigid rain to Tampa Bay.

Florida snowfall records shattered this week, with Pensacola receiving 8.9 inches, per the National Weather Service, easily topping the four inches that fell in 1954. As North Florida defrosts, schools,

Officials warned residents across the South that the effects of a major winter storm were not over, and that driving remained a hazard on roads frozen with slippery ice.

Most cold weather-related warnings had expired across the U.S., but frigid temperatures remained in place across much of Florida.