A rare snow event blanketed Tuscaloosa in white before dawn on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. The Denny Chimes on the Quad at the University of Alabama stand sentinel of students enjoying the snow.

The snow is coming to the Deep South, or so they say. It rarely snows in Alabama. If and when it does, God help us all. Something clicks in our brains, and it’s not good.

Most of north Alabama and parts of central Alabama resembled a winter wonderland Jan. 10 as a wave of cold weather brought snow and sleet to the Deep South.

These showers transitioned into freezing rain, sleet, and snow. Snow fell across Alabama between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Warmer air entered Alabama, returning snow to sleet, freezing rain, and cold rain.

Snow on the Gulf Coast Ahead of the storm, governors in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and even Florida — the Sunshine State — declared states of emergency and many school systems ...