The winter storm next week is expected to dump up to 8 inches of snow in some areas and create hazardous road conditions in New Orleans, the northshore, Baton Rouge and Lafayette, with freezing temps for days.

Some areas of New Orleans and Houston got more than four inches of snow Tuesday morning in a historic winter storm hitting the south.

A rare winter storm churned across the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday, breaking snowfall records more than a century old in a southern region where flurries are unusual, as much of the United States remained in a dangerous deep freeze.

People across the Gulf coast are shoveling snow after a historic winter storm dropped a blanket of snow over the region.

Residents across Southeast Louisiana woke up to a winter wonderland as snowfall totals rivaled those seen in northern climates.