Advisories from the NWS were in place for New York, Montana, California, Wyoming, Colorado and Alaska early on Friday.

Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Kenai Peninsula are under a flood watch from Friday morning through Monday morning.

Expect temperatures to get warmer during the days through the weekend, but overnight lows will still be freezing for most of North and Central Florida.

The rare Southern storm prompted this headline from the Anchorage Daily News: "Hey, New Orleans, please send some of your snow to Anchorage."

It may be January, but the unusually warm, rainy weather feels more like spring breakup, and it's bringing the kind of flooding concerns also usually not seen in the Anchorage area until later in the year.

Heavy freezing spray warnings were issued for Michigan and Alaska that could cause "catastrophic loss of stability" of vessels.

New Orleans has received more snowfall since the start of meteorological winter than many cold-weather cities across the country.

The storm that struck New Orleans this week left the Gulf Coast city under twice as much snow as Anchorage, Alaska has received in nearly two months. "New Orleans, we'd like our snow back," the NWS Anchorage office said.

Cairo and its ancient pyramids sits on nearly the exact same line of latitude as the Mississippi Coast. Weather there on Wednesday peaked at 71 degrees with a light rain around noon. Dead pharaohs can expect temps to rest in the upper 60s for the remainder of the week.

At the height of the storm, 17,500 Alaska residents were without power, according Chugach Electric Association.

Viewer reports and newly released estimates from the National Weather Service help us understand Georgia's historic snowfall totals from Winter Storm Enzo.