At a Glance

Much of Deep South Texas saw its first accumulating snow since Christmas 2004.Before 2004, some of these areas hadn't seen measurable snow in decades.Winter Storm Benji was also one of the heaviest December storms on record in the Deep South.Snow fell in many locations along the Gulf Coast, including the Florida Panhandle.

A bizarre, first-in-over-a decade snow blanketed parts of southern Texasin early December 2017, then spread its snow into the Deep South, Gulf Coast and Southeast, as far south asparts of the Florida panhandle.

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The southern edge of Winter Storm Benji's snow brushed the western Florida panhandle late December 8 into December 9, producing "a dusting at most, perhaps up to a half-inch for a few" locations, according to Tim Cermak, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Mobile, Alabama.

, north of Pensacola in Santa Rosa County.

Flurries were also reported at Destin and Miramar Beach, .

Radar loop in the early morning hours of Dec. 9, 2017, showing snow (in blue) from Winter Storm Benji moving across the western Florida panhandle.

While official snowfall totals weren't available at the time of this update, this may have been the first measurable snow at Pensacola Regional Airport since produced 1 inch of snow in late January 2014.

According to the ACIS database, Pensacola has only had six days of measurable snow in records dating to 1948, two of which occurredin a notoriously cold January 1977, among others.

One inch of snow also fell in Mobile, Alabama, only their third December day on record with 1 inch or more of snowfalland only the 12th such day overall, in records dating to 1948.

Not to be left out, light snow also fell along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

South Texas Snow First in Over a Decade

onDecember 8, with 0.3 inch of accumulation reported at the city's airport.

This was only the third measurable – defined as at least 0.1 inch –snow event on record in one of America's southernmost cities, located roughly the same latitude as Miami.

Christmas Day 2004 was the last accumulating snow in Brownsville. Before 2004, the last time it snowed was in the winter of 1895-96, according to the National Weather Service.

Just outside of Brownsville, about an inch of snow was measured in Edinburg.

That's unusual enough. What was more interesting:, just shy of 90 degrees.

Just to the north, onDecember 8, with snowfall rates around 1inch per hour.

Harvey, then Benji

In Corpus Christi, , also .

Officially, only 1inch was officially measured at Corpus Christi International Airport on December 8.

This was the first accumulating snow in the city since the infamous dumped 4.4 inches over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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. Before the Christmas 2004 event, theyhadn't seen measurable snowtheresince 1973.

This snow occurred less than four months after Category 4 landfall along the Texas Coastal Bend, and record-smashing rainfall flooding in southeast Texas.

Around 3 inches of snow blanketed lingering debris from Harvey in Rockport, Texas.

Here's a list of other Texas notables from Winter Storm Benji (all data via ACIS):

Austin: 1.3 inch at Bergstrom Airport Dec. 7 was their first December measurable snow at that location dating to 1948 San Antonio: 1.9 inch Dec. 7 was only their second measurable December snow of record dating to 1946 College Station: 5 inches Dec. 7 was the heaviest calendar-day snow at Easterwood Field dating to 1951 and their first December measurable snow in their 66-year period of record. (Note: A cooperative station 6 miles southwest of the city with a longer history recorded four December measurable snow events prior to 1951, as well as a 6-inch snowfall on Jan. 30, 1949) Houston: 0.7 inch at Bush Intercontinental Airport Dec. 7-8 was their first measurable snowfall since Dec. 4, 2009. Beaumont-Port Arthur: 3 inches of snow Dec. 8 was their snowiest December day on record and tied for their second snowiest day overall with Jan. 11, 1973; Only Feb. 12, 1960, 3.5 inches, was snowier, there

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Elsewhere in the Deep South...

Winter Storm Benji blanketed many other areas of the Deep South with an unusual snow.

Estimated snowfall over a 48-hour period ending 6 a.m. CST, Dec. 9, 2017, illustrating the snow swath from Winter Storm Benji in the South.

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Lake Charles, Louisiana, picked up 2.1 inches of snow, their heaviest December snowstorm of record and their heaviest accumulation since Jan. 11, 1973, according to the National Weather Service.

Lafayette, Louisiana, set a new December calendar-day record, with 1.7 inches.

The Louisiana capital,Baton Rouge, measured up to 3.5 inches of snow, .

Another state capital, Jackson, Mississippi, picked up their kicked off the Great Depression. Benji was the heaviest single snowstorm since January 1982, there.

(5 inches), topped only by Dec. 31, 1963 (14 inches) and Jan. 28, 1904 (7.6 inches).

Birmingham, Alabama, reported 4 inches of snow on Friday, after seeing snowfall rates of 1 inch per hour for four straight hours Friday morning.

The 4 inches Birmingham saw from Benji ranks as the third snowiest December day in records dating to 1930.

The north and west sides of the Atlanta metro area were buried in up to a foot of snow.

According to William Schmitz from the Southeast Regional Climate Center, , including locations with a period of record dating to the early 20th or late 19th centuries.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been an incurable weather geek since a tornado narrowly missed his childhood home in Wisconsin at age 7. Follow him on and .