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.

Snow covered the sand at Orange Beach in Alabama on Tuesday, January 21, in scenes described as “history in the making”.This video shared to X by the City of Orange Beach shows the popular water sports hub barely recognisable as snow continued to fall.

All-time record snowfall blanketed the Mobile area on Tuesday. Footage from Noah Scheeler shows the campus of the University of South Alabama draped in a thick winter coat, as snow continued to fall in the region.

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,

Storm Enzo blanketed the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida with snow on Tuesday, bringing a rare winter sight to parts of the country more accustomed to sun and sand. On Monday, the National Weather Service called it a once in a generation event.

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.