Parts of Louisiana had twice as much snow as parts of Alaska this January, shattering historical records.
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00:00We had a record-setting January here across the lower 48, especially the Gulf Coast whenever it comes to the cold and the snow.
00:08First, we'll take a look at some of the numbers as far as how cold it got here across parts of the Southern Plains and the Southeast.
00:14This is the departure from historical average by these different cities.
00:19And you can see anytime you get 5 degrees or below, that is whenever you are in record-challenging territory.
00:24And you can see here from Kansas, Georgia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, even Ohio, the Midwest even had record-breaking cold here for some areas throughout the month of January.
00:34But the main thing January 2025 is going to be known for as far as winter weather is that Arctic blast that brought record-breaking snowfall there from the Gulf Coast to the East Coast.
00:45In fact, some of these areas set daily snowfall records, as in all-time single-day snowfall records in every single one of these cities on that map right there.
00:55All six of those cities had the highest snowfall ever recorded in one single day, the same exact day, January 21, 2025.
01:04Just to the west of Pensacola, Florida, they had about 10 inches of snowfall, which makes that the highest snowfall total ever recorded for a single day in the entire state of Florida.
01:15That's what they had.
01:16And just to kind of put this into context, I just want to put this out.
01:19Chicago had, for the entire month of January, had 4.6 inches of total snowfall.
01:26All these other areas you see right there from Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, and even Beaumont, Texas, that is the single day total they had there on January 21.
01:35And just to put this into context, look at Fairbanks, Alaska.
01:37They had 5.6 inches for the entire month.
01:40So parts of Louisiana had double the snowfall that parts of Alaska had last month.
01:46Stay right here with IQ Weather Ahead. We'll be right back right after this break.