Scientists say a warming planet may have been responsible for a winter storm that dropped 10 inches of snow on Northwest Florida.

You might be hearing about the gulf off the coast of the U.S. and Mexico. Here's what to know about the body of water the size of Alaska.

Florida has become the first state to officially refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America," following President Donald Trump 's executive order directing federal agencies to adopt the new name. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used the term in an emergency declaration issued on Monday ahead of a forecast winter storm.

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has protested Google’s decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico as Trump has unilaterally decreed.

Just a few hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing federal officials to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” Florida has already implemented the change.

"As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America," the Interior Department stated in a statement last week. Google responded by noting that the change complies with its longstanding policy of aligning map labeling with updates in official government databases.

The change will likely only be visible to users based in the United States. As part of what it described as a longstanding practice, Google added, "When official names vary between countries, Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That applies here too."

The U.S. government is already working to remove all mentions of the Gulf of Mexico name in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

Trump also renamed Denali, North America’s tallest peak, as Mount McKinley, despite objections from Alaska’s senators.

After taking office, President Donald Trump ordered that the water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba be renamed to the Gulf of America. He also ordered America’s highest mountain peak be changed back to Mt. McKinley.

We traveled the 90-mile or so road from Miami, along pine forests, cypress swamps, sawgrass marshes, and ponds to this final outpost and checked into the Flamingo Lodge.