Heavy snowfall has been reported in Galveston and on other Texas beaches on Tuesday. How much snow fell there and how rare is it to see?

FOX Weather's Brandy Campbell is live in New Orleans, covering the winter storm. Photos from Tuesday morning show palm trees dusted with snow and the city in a snowy haze. Heavy snow and freezing fog have been reported in New Orleans for much of the morning, according to the NWS in New Orleans.

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A snowstorm warning was in effect for 31 million people - from southern Texas east through Georgia and north to the Carolinas and into Virginia - until Wednesday morning, the National Weather Service said.

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.

A man seen running in the snow in Houston, Texas on Tuesday A rare winter storm is gripping parts of the US deep south, closing highways and airports in Texas and prompting a first-ever blizzard warning in southwest Louisiana.

Florida and Texas were both under winter storm warning from the National Weather Service (NWS) on Tuesday morning as an arctic air mass caused plunging temperatures and heavy snow along the Gulf Coast.