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 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 snow into Louisiana, leaving cities like New Orleans with a coating of snow as well.

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

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.

FBI reviewed Jabbar’s electronics which revealed online searches about accessing Bourbon Street balconies, Mardi Gras, and shootings in New Orleans.

From a snowy Bourbon Street in New Orleans to making a snowman on the beaches in Houston, check out the falling snow in our southern states.

An examination of visuals, witness accounts and city planning documents reveals that security lapses in New Orleans left crucial gaps on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day.

By the time Shamsud-Din Jabbar swerved onto Bourbon Street at 3:17 a.m. on New Year’s Day, his plan seemed to have been taking shape for months. But for those who narrowly escaped his deadly three-block rampage,

Days after a truck rammed through a Bourbon Street crowd, killing 14 and injuring nearly 60, portable vehicle-stopping barriers were deployed in New Orleans. Those same 700-pound mobile steel barriers will be used in Austin as well,

The FBI said an initial review of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, showed that the man conducted extensive online research into New Orleans before the rampage.

After a truck drove into a crowd on New Year's in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the FBI has continued to look into the man Shamsud-Din Jabbar.

The man who is suspected of committing the New Years Day vehicle-ramming attack in New Orleans searched online for information about the Christmas market car-ramming attack in Germany, just hours before carrying out his own attack on Bourbon Street, according to the FBI.