A winter storm prompted a National Weather Service office in Louisiana to issue a first-ever blizzard warning. The storm is causing dangerous conditions from Texas to North Carolina.
South Mississippi is bracing for the first significant snowfall since 1996, Harrison County Emergency Management director Matt Stratton said during a meeting Sunday afternoon to prepare for the deep freeze expected to grip the Coast tonight and bring snow by Tuesday.
Another blast of winter storms is closing schools, snarling flights and putting millions of residents on alert across parts of the Deep South and south-central U.S. The National Weather Service says heavy snowfall and icy conditions are likely Friday in Mississippi,
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Snow accumulations are possible across much of Mississippi, according to the revised forecast Sunday from the National Weather Service in Jackson.
The storm prompted the first-ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border, and snowplows were at the ready in the Florida Panhandle.
Flight cancellations are mounting as a historic winter storm sweeps across the Gulf Coast. Already, the storm has brought air traffic to a virtual standstill at several airports across parts of Texas and Louisiana.
The wind chill Tuesday morning was projected to be in the low teens according to the National Weather Service’s Fort Worth office.
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The Pensacola area is forecast to receive between 4 to 6 inches of snow, but the National Weather Service says areas south of I-10 could see more.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.