MIAMI - A major and historic winter storm slammed the Florida Panhandle on Tuesday with widespread record-breaking snowfall.

The Florida impact starts with immigration. In the first 24 hours of his presidency, Trump announced a national emergency at the southern border, suspended refugee resettlement and terminated a humanitarian parole program that had offered a legal pathway to entry for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.

MIAMI - A major winter storm is moving into northern Florida on Tuesday, bringing what will potentially be record-breaking snowfall totals in spots, the threat of accumulating ice and locally treacherous travel conditions.

Parts of Florida are seeing snowfall as a winter storm moves across the Gulf Coast. Find out here when the Sunshine State last experienced snow before 2025.

“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.

Senate President Ben Albritton announced that out of “an abundance of caution,” Senate offices will close Wednesday, and 20 Senate committee meetings scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday are also canceled. House Speaker Daniel Perez confirmed identical cancellations have been made for the House and 20 meetings its members were to have this week.

Florida is seeing "significant" snowfall due to a rare winter storm. For native Floridians or transplants who escaped the cold, see when it warms up.

Florida's been cold this January. Here’s what month it usually starts getting warm in Florida and what the hottest and coldest days on record are.

You can view me as like a dog that’s got you on the ankle on immigration,” Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters in Tallahassee on Tuesday.

On that day, snow fell in South Florida for the first time in recorded history. According to an article from the NWS, snow was seen across all of southeast Florida as far south as Homestead and even on Miami Beach.

For the last six years, Gov. Ron DeSantis has been used to getting his way with the state Legislature, at times slashing the priorities of Republican leaders and calling them back to Tallahassee to pass bills that boost his political profile.