A major winter storm bringing blizzard conditions to Louisiana on Tuesday turned New Orleans into a snow town, blanketing palm trees in fresh flakes and halting the normally bustling Big Easy.

A major winter storm slammed the US Gulf Coast Tuesday, blanketing parts of a region largely unaccustomed to extreme winter weather with record-breaking snowfall.

A powerful and rare winter storm swept across the South on Tuesday, bringing the first-ever Blizzard Warning to the Gulf Coast and blasting communities from Texas to Florida to the Carolinas with record-shattering snow that snarled travel and brought daily life to a halt.

A winter storm that dropped record-breaking snow across the South moved into Florida. Some people are seeing snow for the first time.