An unusual winter storm swept through the Deep South on Tuesday, bringing significant and even once-in-a-lifetime snowfall to unexpected areas.

The winter storm brought up to about 2 inches of snow over parts of north Georgia and areas south of Interstate 20. “There was a sharp cut off in accumulating snow basically right along and near I-85 with not much, as expected, over areas north and west of Atlanta,” Meteorologist Brian Monahan said.

This broke the previous daily record of a track of snow from 2014. This brings our seasonal snowfall total up to 3.2 inches for the city of Atlanta. This is our snowiest winter in 8 years. In 2017-2018,

The snow has begun falling in metro Atlanta leading to a Winter Storm Warning to be expanded for the area. The FOX 5 Storm Team takes a look at the latest.

Wednesday is a First Alert Weather Day following the snow that fell across parts of the metro during the afternoon and into the evening hours on Tuesday.