Arctic air grips the central and eastern U.S., bringing record-breaking cold, dangerous wind chills, and historic snowfall. Newsweek's live blog is closed.
A perfect confluence of an Arctic air outbreak and a low-pressure system that pulled in moisture from the Gulf of Mexico brought rare, record snow to the Gulf Coast
The rare Southern storm prompted this headline from the Anchorage Daily News: "Hey, New Orleans, please send some of your snow to Anchorage."
Snow totals in Louisiana have broken records. Parts of Florida, Texas and Georgia have also accumulated several inches of snow.
New Orleans surpassed its all-time daily snow record Tuesday with 8 inches of snow—that’s more snow than Anchorage, Alaska, has seen this month. With snow and freezing temperatures comes the risk of icy roads.
A record-breaking snowstorm in the southern U.S. dumped as much as 8 inches of snow on New Orleans and nearly a foot of snow in Alabama
The Gulf Coast is digging out from a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm that struck from Texas to Florida, closing airports and crippling roadways.
A record-breaking and rare winter storm hit the southern US Wednesday — dumping snow on New Orleans for the first time in15 years, and triggering the Gulf Coast’s first ever blizzard warning. The historic snowfall — which slammed areas from Florida to Texas starting Tuesday — snarled travel and brought daily life to a halt in regions unprepared for the freak weather event.
A 23-year-old Santa Rosa Beach woman couldn't pass up the opportunity to recreate a photo from a Florida snowstorm in 1977.
New Orleans has received more than twice the snowfall as Anchorage this winter — underscoring Southcentral Alaska's meager snow season as much as the rare winter storm that pummeled that subtropical Louisiana city this week.
R​oads were still closed Thursday morning after a historic winter storm hit The South, bringing inches of snow to areas not used to seeing any snowfall at all. D​rivers in Southeast Louisiana were urged to continue to stay off the roads on Thursday morning,
A winter storm sweeping through the southern U.S. this week dumped snow at levels many in those regions have never seen before, but how does it compare to Chicago? The answer is surprising.