A historic winter storm in south Alabama on Tuesday broke Mobile’s 130-year-old snowfall record and brought a rarely seen covering of snow to the beaches of Gulf Shores. But while it gave folks in Mobile an exceedingly uncommon opportunity to build snowmen,

Forecasting winter weather in the southern region can be tricky at times.  However, the recent rare winter storm in the Deep South brought a winter wonderland to areas where it is typically unheard of to get snow.