An unusual and powerful winter storm brought heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain to the Gulf Coast, causing widespread disruptions and a rare sight for residents accustomed to hurricanes.
A rare and powerful winter storm swept through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing cities like New Orleans and Houston with snow. The storm resulted in widespread disruptions, including closed highways, grounded flights, and school cancellations for over a million students. This unusual weather event, more common to hurricane preparedness in the region, brought the first-ever blizzard warnings to several coastal counties along the Texas -Louisiana border.
Snow plows were deployed in anticipation of the snowfall, even reaching as far as the Florida Panhandle. The storm's impact extended to picturesque white-sand beaches, usually associated with sunny vacations, in locations such as Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida, which were transformed into winter wonderlands. The snow, sleet, and freezing rain across the Deep South were a consequence of an arctic air mass that plunged much of the Midwest and the eastern United States into a deep freeze. The storm significantly disrupted air travel, with nearly 2,000 flights within, to, or from the United States canceled on Tuesday, and another 10,000 delayed, according to online flight tracking data.
WINTER STORM SNOW GULF COAST TEXAS LOUISIANA NEW ORLEANS HOUSTON TRAVEL DISRUPTIONS SCHOOL CLOSURES
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