The winter storm that crossed the Gulf coast and landed in Florida earlier this week is one for the record books, smashing the previous all-time high for snowfall in the Sunshine State.

The heaviest snowfall in the Sunshine State occurred around Pensacola, where spotters reported measuring amounts of 5 to 12 inches through Tuesday evening. Due to the hazardous weather and a series of crashes, a nearly 70-mile stretch of Interstate 10 was shut down by the Florida Highway Patrol.

The winter storm that moved through Florida on Tuesday into Wednesday is one for the record books, smashing the previous all-time high for snowfall in the Sunshine State.

Even less sleet fell in the Jacksonville area and that has already melted. Here's the latest on what the storm brought to the Panhandle and North Florida ... The Milton and Jay areas got 8 to ...

The National Weather Service just dropped updated snowfall totals, with Milton now up to 9.8 inches. This will be the final total and, if verified, may stand as the new Florida state record for snowfall. A previous record was 4 inches, also set in Milton in 1954.

A historic winter storm that prompted rare Winter Storm Warnings across North Florida and the Panhandle ... to the National Weather Service. Nearby Milton, though, had an official total of 8.8 ...

For the first time in more than a third of a century, Jacksonville ... far less snow than the Florida Panhandle or Southeast Georgia — the Panhandle town of Milton recorded nearly 10 inches ...

Millions of people across the Southeast — particularly older adults living with low incomes — have faced immense challenges as they rebuild.'

Not only did Florida get record snowfall, but it was colder in Pensacola this morning than it was in Anchorage, Alaska.

Snow in the Sunshine State doesn't happen very often. But it did. And here are the photos from Pensacola to Yulee to prove it.

Not even the most seasoned Floridians anticipated the magnitude of the epic snowstorm that shattered Florida’s snow records last week.

Winter Storm Enzo was not your typical winter storm, but its rain and snow were caused by a classic setup. Enzo never truly had a robust low pressure system, but instead was a large overlap between the coldest air of the season, abundant moisture and the tail end of a deep upper-level trough.