Historic snow and bitter cold moved across the South, causing places like New Orleans to get hit with a blizzard and Mobile to see snow for the first time in years.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.

Snow started falling on Monday across the Lone Star State because it wasn’t until Tuesday that records across the Gulf Coast were smashed. New Orleans officially recorded 8" of snow with plenty of reports of 8-12" around the Big Easy.

A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida Panhandle, Georgia and the coastal Carolinas on Wednesday after breaking snow records in Texas and Louisiana, treating the region to unaccustomed perils and wintertime joy.

Roughly 40 million people from Texas to the Carolinas are under winter weather alerts as a rare winter storm amid bone-chilling temperatures brings potentially historic snowfall to cities unused to harsh,

People made the most of it — from a snowball fight on a Gulf Shores beach to sledding in a laundry basket in Montgomery, Alabama, to pool-tubing down a Houston hill. In New Orleans, urban skiing ...

People explore snow on the beach, Jan. 22, 2025 ... around on Bourbon Street as snow falls in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Jan. 21, 2025. Gerald Herbert/AP This storm brought more snow ...

The snow is still falling along the Gulf coast, but it’s already considered to be a record breaker. Early reports put the snowfall at Mobile Regional Airport at over six inches and five more in Pensacola.

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STAY WITH US ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION GUYS. BACK TO YOU. YEAH. AUBRY, KEEP US ABREAST O Many residents across New Orleans are looking for stores that are open after ice shut down roads for ...

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From Waveland to Gulf Shores to Pensacola, here's what Gulf Coast beaches looked like blanketed in a winter wonderland. ❄️