Snow totals in Louisiana have broken records. Parts of Florida, Texas and Georgia have also accumulated several inches of snow.

A rare winter storm that hammered the Panhandle and beyond on Tuesday is likely to shatter the state record, once it’s made official.

Folks in northern Florida awoke to a winter wonderland Wednesday morning, after a rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday.

A historic and deadly winter storm that stretches over 1,500 miles blanketed the southern U.S. on Tuesday with historic snow totals, including the first-ever Blizzard Warning for the Gulf Coast.

The NWS said up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) of snow fell in the Houston area. Texas transportation officials said more than 20 snowplows were in use across nearly 12,000 lane miles in the Houston area, which lacks its own city or county plows.

In January 1977, two Arctic blasts swept through Florida from Jan. 16-20, bringing the coldest temperatures and unprecedented snowfall as far south as Homestead on Jan. 19 — a first in South Florida recorded history. The temperature dropped to 23 degrees in Vero Beach, according to a previous TCPalm article.

Folks in northern Florida awoke to a winter wonderland Wednesday morning, after a rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday. Cold weather advisories and warnings covered the Panhandle as snow covered the white-sand beaches of normally sunny vacation spots,

Snow fell in Houston and prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border. Snow covered the white-sand beaches of normally sunny vacation spots, including Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Pensacola Beach.

Roughly 40 million people from Texas to the Carolinas are under winter weather alerts as a rare winter storm amid bone-chilling temperatures brings potentially historic snowfall to cities

The first-ever blizzard warning has been issued for parts of the Texas and Louisiana coast as a historic snowstorm hits the South. One hypothermia-related death has been reported in Georgia, according to James Stallings,

An historic January storm dumped more deep snow along the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday after bringing Houston and New Orleans to a near standstill over the past two days and burying parts of Florida's Panhandle with accumulations more typical of Chicago.