For the first time in a long time, Florida is seeing measurable snow across the Panhandle. Many of those snowfall totals are breaking the state's 4-inch record. While Central Florida isn't forecasted to have snow,

Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter storm takes aim at the South.

A rare, potentially historic winter storm is bringing heavy snow and icy conditions across the Gulf Coast while most of the country is facing dangerously cold temperatures from an arctic blast that arrived over the weekend.

A winter storm was on a track to sweep through Texas and Louisiana, across the Gulf Coast and deep into Florida, significant snow and ice in tow.

The storm had knocked out power to more than half a million utility customers by early Friday as it moved across Ireland.

Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,

Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the island.