On Tuesday, it snowed in the North Florida. In the tampa bay, the frigid breeze cools all night.

A strong winter storm that blows through the United States, including the Mexican Gulf, brings an unusual sight of snow and ice in the northern part of Florida, causing extreme cold rain to the tampa bay.

In the northern part of Florida, snow began to fall around noon on Tuesday. At Penzakola, snow was piled up on the welcome sign in Florida. Along the state -of -the -art expressway No. 10, transportation cameras showed gray conditions and trucks running on frozen roads.

This winter was part of a storm that attacked Texas and the northern Mexican bay, where expressways and airports were closed, and the first snowstorm warning was issued in southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana.

Early in the morning of Wednesday, most of the central Florida has issued a cold wave warning, and some areas may cool down to 25 degrees.

According to Austin Franary, a meteorist of the National Meteorological Bay Office, the temperature at night is expected to fall from 30 degrees to 40 degrees, but the area will feel colder due to strong winds.

From Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon, winter storm warming was affected in the Pancreas and Northern States of Florida. The Meteorological Bureau is expected to have up to 4 inch snow and sleet.

According to Matt David, chief meteorist of WINK News, Southwest of Florida, about 2:30 pm, about 2.5 inches of pencola was piled up.

Late on Tuesday afternoon, a car was slowly progressing along the Penzakola’s State Expressway No. 10, in a snowy situation that many Florida drivers were unfamiliar with.

According to the Talahase Meteorological Bureau, there is a possibility that up to 3 inches of snow in the area may be piled up, and the most is piled up from Tuesday afternoon to evening. According to the Democratic Party of Tarahasie, the last snow fell in the capital of Florida in 2018, but only 20 minutes piled up. According to news from the company, the most snow in the area in the area in 1958 was 2.8 inches of snow.

Before the freezing situation, several Governor Ganju, including Ron Desantis in Florida, declared an emergency.

The declaration mentioned that President Donald Trump has changed the name of Mexico Bay, warning the winter weather caused by “crossing the American bay.”

At a press conference on Tuesday morning, Desantis warns the pancreas and Big Bend’s Florida in preparing for snowfall and frozen rain this afternoon.

According to Desantis, 2-4 inch snow is seen in some areas, and depending on the location, up to 6 inches of snow may be seen, which will update the state record.

“In Florida, we’re not always used to walking in Wonderland in winter,” said Desantis on Tuesday. “If this was South Dakota, they would just scoop their shoulders.”

Talahasie schools, including Florida State University, canceled classes.

State parliamentarians canceled the committee scheduled to be held this week. According to Desantis, non -essential state staff will be returned home at 1:00 pm.

In some areas, the emergency statements have been calling out to Florida to stay away from the road, as one to 2 inches of ice may remain on the road on Wednesday.

“Be sure to know how to drive in this situation,” says Kevin Gasley, director of the crisis management department.

“If not, you may want to walk.”

According to Desantis, the roads and bridges were sprayed, and transportation workers mobilized 11 snowplows.

“This is not the kind of disaster or emergency we are used to,” said Desantis. “So we take this problem seriously.”

While most of the eastern United States falls into extreme cold lands in the Arctic air blast, this storm is expected to sprinkle heavy snow, sleeves and ice rain around the deep southern part.

From eastern Texas to western pamphlets, 1 inch, more than 1 inch snowfall may occur, and the historic snowfall of 3 to 6 inches is predicted along Houston, including Houston. It was done. New Orleans; Alabama Mobil. According to the Meteorological Bureau, Pen Sacola.

According to Franally, the Tampa Bay is expected to rain through Tuesdays due to cold, and may probably rain on Wednesday morning. The cold in the area is expected to last at least until the end of work week. According to the Meteorological Bureau, the temperature drops the most on Friday, and the minimum temperature may fall to mid -30 degrees in tumens.

“Even a few days have passed, this week will still be cold,” Franery said. “It will be a miserable situation for the next few days, and then.”

Pinus County and Hills Boro County announced that it will open a cold shelter on Tuesday night.

Franally said that hypothermia would be a concern if the cold was prolonged, and that the temperature could decrease in rainy weather.

“The important thing is the cold weather, and people are ready to prepare and keep the rainfall,” Franery said. “I want to keep it as warm and dry as possible.”

According to the online tracking site Flightaware.com, nearly 2,000 flights in the United States or immigration were canceled on Tuesdays, and about 10,000 flights were delayed. On Tuesday, Tampa International Airport reported that nearly 13 % of flights were delayed and nearly 6 % had canceled.

According to Meteorological scholar Donald Jones, the storm warning that lasts until noon on Tuesday has been issued by Luiku Chars, Louisiana. According to Jones, the visibility has been reduced due to a strong wind with a heavy snow zone, and in areas in the southern Gulf of the Gulf, which rarely falls, record or record snowfall is expected.

“The last snow on the snow dates back to 1960, and before that, the snowfall record to the present dates back to 1895,” said Jones. “From modern standards, this will be a historic and very memorable storm for the world in the world.”

Forecast officers warned that sensitive plants and exposed pipes could be threatened by the minimum temperature in the morning, under freezing, in areas where they were not used to severe cold.

Due to the cold, President Trump swears the president in the Rotanda of the Diet Council on Monday, overturned a thoroughly inaugurated outdoor inauguration ceremony, which was crowded with national malls. The inauguration ceremony was lasting indoors during the 1985 President Ronald Reagan.

The Times paper staff writer Lawrence Mower has contributed to this report and includes information from AP communication.