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 used to hurricane dismissals than snow days.

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida also under winter storm warnings: snow, sleet, freezing rain, icy conditions expected - Anadolu Ajansı

A rare, historic snowfall blanketed parts of the southern U.S. on Tuesday, allowing residents to play in the rather unusual weather. Families went snow tubing in Houston. People made snowballs and snow angels. People were even seen skiing on Bourbon Street.

Residents across parts of the Gulf Coast and South are bracing for a rare winter storm expected to drop heavy snow and create treacherous conditions, including freezing rain and sleet

A man seen running in the snow in Houston, Texas on Tuesday A rare winter storm is gripping parts of the US deep south, closing highways and airports in Texas and prompting a first-ever blizzard warning in southwest Louisiana.

A rare winter storm churned across the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday, bringing heavy snow, ice and wind gusts to a region where flurries are unusual, while much of the United States remained in a deep freeze.

Weather forecasters and public bodies issued health and power loss warnings Tuesday as a “rare winter storm" gripped part of the southern and eastern U.S.

A major winter storm brought frigid temperatures to the South on Monday, January 20, prompting closures of roads, schools, and airports, and leaving at least three dead in Texas and Georgia. RESTRICTIONS AND USAGE TERMS: Please credit “@SURFcumana via Spectee”.