The National Weather Service in Mobile said that as of 6:10 p.m. 7.5 inches of snow had fallen at its office in west Mobile. That breaks the old all-time record of 6 inches from 1895. That’s not the only record that was broken on Tuesday.

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The National Weather Service had warned about a “significant” and “historic” snowstorm for south Alabama on Tuesday, and forecasters were right. Parts of south Alabama got record-setting amounts of snow on Tuesday. Mobile got 7.5 inches on Tuesday, which shattered its all-time record for snow, which had stood since 1895.

Much of the Florida Panhandle received more snow from a storm this week than Rhode Island had during its most recent snowstorm. The official total from the National Weather Service Mobile was 7.6 inches of snow in Pensacola,

Tuesday’s snowfall was not just historic simply because it snowed – that can happen in Northern Florida – but rather because that snow more than doubled the previous record for any 24-hour period in Florida.

Snow fell Tuesday throughout parts of northern Florida and the Panhandle, with some accumulation totals surpassing 9 inches, according to the National Weather Service. Other parts of Florida saw a mixture of freezing rain,