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Kelley Whitaker, of Gulf Breeze, walks back to the parking lot after taking photographs on Pensacola Beach as snow falls on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. In Florida, the Pensacola area broke the state's ...
Beaches turned white as a rare winter storm with heavy snow and ice buried areas from San Antonio and Houston, Texas, along the Gulf coast through the Texas Panhandle. While it has happened before ...
NEW ORLEANS – A rare southern snowstorm created sights that only occur about once in a lifetime, with cities from the Lone Star State through the Florida Panhandle reporting heavy snowfall.
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, Florida.
September 10–15 – Hurricane Sally slowly moved ashore southern Alabama, producing peak wind gusts of 92 mph (148 km/h) in Pensacola. The city also recorded a 5.6 ft (1.7 m) storm surge, which was the third-highest water level there after Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and the 1926 Miami hurricane. Sally dropped torrential rainfall across where it ...
Mobile, Alabama, hit 5.4 inches (13.7 centimeters) Tuesday, topping the city’s one-day snowfall record of 5 inches (12.7 centimeters), set Jan. 24, 1881, and nearing its all-time snowfall record ...
Moreover, storm surge inundated low-lying parts of the city with up to 3 ft (0.91 m) of water, while heavily tourist-trafficked areas such as Caroline Street were also flooded. [51] Throughout the city, 282 homes received minor damage, 39 suffered major damage, and 23 were destroyed. [46] Three fatalities were reported in Key West. [48]
During Elena's initial approach, the first series of hurricane warnings were issued between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and Apalachicola, Florida. The storm's projected path quickly nudged westward, prompting the warnings to be extended to Morgan City, Louisiana, and truncated to Pensacola, Florida on their eastern reach. [13]