Topline
A historic winter storm is making its way through the south, bringing once-in-a-lifetime snowfall to many places that typically don’t receive it and placing millions under winter storm warnings, just days after most of the country suffered its coldest temperatures of the season.
Key Facts
The National Weather Service New Orleans said some parts of New Orleans and Baton Rouge got up to eight inches of snow, as of 3 p.m. EST, and it warned while snowfall has calmed down it may pick back up.
Houston got more than four inches of snow Monday night into Tuesday, and snow was still falling in Galveston and Brownsville, Texas, on Tuesday morning before the storm pushed eastward.
Houston is under a winter storm warning until 6 p.m. on Tuesday with snow and sleet expected to end in the afternoon, and an extreme cold watch follows that until 9 a.m. on Wednesday with the NWS predicting wind chill values could fall as low as 7 degrees…