A winter storm sweeping through the US South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven’t seen before. Moisture from the Gulf of Mexico was combining with a low-pressure system and chilly air to drop significant amounts of snow in some spots. That included 10.
Paige Encarnacion builds a snowman on the beach during a winter storm on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Galveston, Texas.
The National Weather Service said 7 to 8 inches of snow had been reported in areas between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. New Orleans’ old record was 2.7 inches set in 1963. In Texas, the Houston-Galveston area had 2 to 4 inches before midday. The US Gulf Coast is far better known for its hurricanes—Houston, for example, was rocked by Hurricane Beryl in July—and it’s a “fairly rare phenomenon” to see snow in the region, said Bradley Brokamp, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Houston. That’s a combination seen a little more often in the Northeast, which gets snowy winters and the occasional tropical storm.
It appeared Florida had broken its state snowfall record of 4 inches, set in Milton on March 6, 1954. The National Weather Service’s Mobile office said Pensacola had gotten 5 inches.
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