The cold temperatures are coming from a not uncommon expansion in the Polar Vortex, which are counter-clockwise rotating air currents that typically hang over the Arctic.

The National Weather Service in Lake Charles, LA, issued a blizzard warning about 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, January 21, 2025 for Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana. It is the first blizzard warning ever issued by the Lake Charles weather service office.

Instead of coming from the West Coast or diving in from the northern Great Plains, this one comes from the Gulf of Mexico. I know what you’re thinking: “How can there be a winter storm from a place with warm moist air?

For example, Lake Charles, La., along the Gulf Coast, showed snowfall rates of over 1 inch per hour this morning and early afternoon and visibility down to a quarter of a mile with blowing snow. This is one of the reasons why blizzard warnings were posted briefly for that region earlier.

A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast left New Orleans and Houston frozen Tuesday.

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.

At least 10 people have died. Officials warned that arctic cold will persist for another day, and roads could remain dangerous. Still, many Southerners found joy in the rare experience.

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

The latest on the once-in-a-generation winter system off of the Gulf of Mexico from the southernmost Blizzard Warning ever issued to near-record snowfall.

Warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico did not cause the record-setting snowfall, but the conditions may have been an ingredient to the unusual weather.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Denali, the tallest peak in the United States,

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has an answer for President Donald Trump about his idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America:” he can call it whatever he wants on the American part of it.