"Not your typical beach day! Our lifeguard tower is trading sunshine for snowflakes. Stay warm, everyone!" Tybee Island Ocean Rescue posted on social media.

Florida, and 8.9 inches in Pensacola, the weather service office in Mobile, Alabama said Wednesday. Interstate 10 closed all the way to Tallahassee Per Florida Department of Transportation, Interstate 10 from the Alabama state line to Tallahassee is closed.

A Florida Lottery player hit the jackpot in the latest Fantasy 5 drawing, results show. A Fantasy 5 player netted a life-changing lottery prize in Florida, officials said. A ticket sold in Pensacola matched five numbers in the evening drawing Wednesday,

The Pensacola area is forecast to receive between 4 to 6 inches of snow, but the National Weather Service says areas south of I-10 could see more.

The rare Southern storm prompted this headline from the Anchorage Daily News: "Hey, New Orleans, please send some of your snow to Anchorage."

Snowing on the beach in Florida? See a photo gallery of the unprecedented amount of snow that fell on northern Florida on Tuesday.

An Extreme Cold Warning is in effect until 10 a.m. Wednesday, as wind chills could drop to as low as 3 degrees in some spots. Frostbite and hypothermia will occur if unprotected skin is exposed to these temperatures. An extended period of freezing temperatures could cause ruptured water pipes.

A winter storm pummeled the southern United States with ice and snow Tuesday. Here's how much snow fell in Florida, Texas, Alabama and more.

Snow records are falling right and left this week. But, it looks Mobile takes the cake so far. The six and a half inches that fell by mid day Tuesday topped the six inches of snow Alabama’s Port City saw in 1881.

The winter storm moving through the southern regions of Texas, Louisiana and Alabama has brought snow to the Sunshine State. Snow began to fall near Pensacola Tuesday afternoon. This video was caught on an Interstate 10 traffic camera in the Florida Panhandle. Snow has arrived in Florida! Check out this video from I-10 near Pensacola.

While there is snow in North Florida, West Palm weather forecast shows wind chill temperatures on Friday in the upper 30s in Palm Beach County.

While local officials urged drivers to stay off the roads, nothing was going to keep Pensacolians from enjoying a rare snow day.