On Aug. 30, 2025, the Alabama Crimson Tide will travel to open the college football season, facing the Florida State Seminoles in Tallahassee, Florida.

A rare frigid storm is charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow, closing highways and grounding nearly all flights.

A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.

The hope for a Florida snow has given way to early worries about the small possibility of a "high impact event" next week involving freezing rain that could coat the region in ice.

The weather service in Tallahassee, Fla., which covers southeast Alabama as well as the Florida Panhandle and southern Georgia, said it was still too early to determine specific precipitation ...

Snow totals in Louisiana have broken records. Parts of Florida, Texas and Georgia have also accumulated several inches of snow.

The storm prompted the first-ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border, and snowplows were at the ready in the Florida Panhandle.

Tallahassee is expected to wake up Wednesday to a veritable winter wonderland — with a potentially thick if not record-breaking blanket of snow on the ground

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