Kathy Graning, bundled from head-to-toe in cold weather gear, just shook her head as she looked down High Street on Tuesday morning. “This isn’t snow,” she joked. “This is nothing.” Graning’s tongue-in-cheek disappointment may have been shared by many across the Miss-Lou on Tuesday after projections of

A major winter storm slammed the southern US Tuesday, blanketing parts of the Gulf Coast with record-breaking snowfall in a region largely unaccustomed to extreme winter weather.

"The roads could become hazardous beginning this afternoon. There’s going to be ice, there’s going to be snow..."

: MAJOR TRAVEL ALERT Eastbound I-10 is closed from Exit 70 (S.R. 285) to Exit 85 (U.S. 331) due to icy conditions in Northwest Florida. “As winter weather conditions continue to change, drive with caution and before getting on the road check FL511.

The Big Easy was blanketed with historic snowfall Tuesday — Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport received 8 inches, the most in a single storm since records were first kept in 1948, according to the National Weather Service.

Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Truchelut, of Tallahassee-based WeatherTiger, is tracking a Florida winter storm for the ages in a livestreamed forecast.

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.

Florida residents who had a rare snow day were seen in photos and videos making snowmen and having snowball fights. Meteorologists say the snow may stick around until Wednesday, but won't reach Tampa.

North Florida residents from Pensacola to Jacksonville are bracing for what is expected to be a historic, once-in-a-lifetime winter storm.