As a cold front moves through South Florida, the coldest temperature in Palm Beach County is typically between 2 and 8 a.m. This shelter opens at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24.

It was so cold across Florida on Thursday morning that temperatures in at least four cities were colder than in Alaska, but a desperately needed warmup was on the way for millions of Americans from Texas to Florida following a deadly winter storm unmatched in decades.

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.

Parts of the Florida Panhandle were coated in a blanket of snow with temperatures at 25 degrees on Tuesday while Miami had temperatures in the 80s, seemingly two different worlds. From Pensacola down to Miami, there was a difference of 55 degrees, according to the National Weather Service Miami .

“I’m so glad I’m so much farther south. I moved to Florida to get away from the snow!” commented Jennifer Saxon Halam on his post. According to her Facebook, she lives in Englewood on Florida’s west coast about 88 miles south of Tampa. But just wait: Weather Underground forecasts a low of 38 there next Saturday morning.

Storm Warning is in effect for the entire Interstate 10 corridor where snow and ice accumulations could reach 4" over the next 24 hours. Pensacola will likely see the most snowfall in the state while greater amounts of ice are anticipated for cities such as Tallahassee and Jacksonville.

A historic winter storm that prompted rare Winter Storm Warnings across North Florida and the Panhandle dumped sleet, snow and freezing rain on Tuesday and Wednesday, shattering the Sunshine State ...

As expected, it was cold early Thursday morning across Florida, especially the Panhandle and North Florida, but colder temps extended into South Florida ... year record in Pensacola, which ...

There are reports of snow already in Pensacola as of late Tuesday morning ... sweeping south over the warm Gulf of Mexico and into South Florida where climate history was made.

Here’s where snow fell in Florida, how much snow the Sunshine State got this week and what the coldest day in Florida history was.

Florida buried in record-breaking snow as ice freezes South leaving at least 13 dead - The dangerous winter storm has resulted in the deaths of at least 13 people across the U.S. and knocked out power for more than 120,