2025 Mobile Ornament - Historic Snowstorm

This year’s Mobile ornament honors the Historic Snowstorm of 2025 that turned the Gulf Coast into a winter wonderland on January 21 and shattered 130-year-old records for the most snowfall (7.5 inches) and the lowest daytime temperature (6º Fahrenheit) ever recorded in Mobile. The ornament depicts the Live Oaks over Government Street covered in snow while a family builds a snowman by the roadside. For this storm, the National Weather Service indicated that unusually cold and dry air, originating from the Arctic, collided with Gulf moisture, resulting in dry, fluffy snow that tended to accumulate. This type of powdery snow is more common in mountain areas than along the Gulf Coast.