A rare snow storm blanketed the Houston area and across Southeast Texas, and this included areas along the Texas Coast, like the beach in Galveston. The same system also brought s

By noon, the National Weather Service had reported about 4 inches of snow in New Orleans. The storm prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border, and snow plows were at the ready in the Florida Panhandle, according to the Associated Press.

A winter storm is dropping snow and freezing rain onto parts of the US deep south, prompting blizzard warnings.