New Orleans city officials have also warned residents about the coming days of near-freezing temperatures and increasingly icy conditions. An unexpected feat. Yesterday’s snowst

A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday has closed highways and airports and prompted the first blizzard warning for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

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.