Snow totals in Louisiana have broken records. Parts of Florida, Texas and Georgia have also accumulated several inches of snow.
The storm prompted the first-ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border, and snowplows were at the ready in the Florida Panhandle.
That's wild considering it hasn't snowed in New Orleans since 2009, and their last "big" snowstorm was in 2008 when 1-2 inches fell. Up to five inches of snow could accumulate in the Houston area. The all-time record snowfall in Houston is 3.0 inches, so this is very clearly a historic situation.
TALLAHASSEE, FL — For much of the Gulf Coast, the snowstorm that's expected to end soon was a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm. Many areas saw more snow than they have in at least 130 years, making this truly a historic event.
The snowstorm currently lashing the Gulf Coast is being described as a once in a generation weather event, the National Weather Service said Monday.
As heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain hit parts of the Deep South, a blast of Arctic air plunged much of the Midwest and the eastern U.S. into a deep freeze.
Light snow fell on this panhandle city Wednesday as the last remnant of an unprecedented, deadly storm rolled out to sea after smashing snow records from here to New Orleans and casting a blanket of ice across a region not targeted by such a severe wintry assault in generations.
When the sun rose over the Sunshine State on Wednesday, palm trees were dusted with snow, waves crashed on icy beaches, and overjoyed Floridians grabbed whatever would slide and headed for the closest hill.
A historic and dangerous winter storm stretching over 1,500 miles is blanketing the southern U.S. with heavy snow, including areas of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana under Blizzard Warnings.
The winter weather rapidly moves east, with places such as New Orleans in Louisiana and Pensacola in Florida getting snow ... snow in both the Big Easy and Tallahassee, it would be the first ...
Heavy snow is expected along and north of the Interstate 10 corridor, with swaths of sleet and freezing rain over portions of southern Texas, southeastern Georgia and northern Florida ... The city of New Orleans has been included in a Winter Storm Warning ...