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.

A polar vortex is slated to sweep most of the continental US bringing winter storm warnings and a hazardous freeze to millions.

Elsewhere, the East Coast contended with a thick blanket of snow while people from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine shivered in bitterly cold temperatures from an Arctic air mass that sent temperatures plunging well below normal Monday with dangerously cold wind chills.

The Tug Hill has some of the best trail conditions, according to snowmobilers.

After days of dangerous cold and off and on lake effect snow showers, the end is almost near!Temperatures are in the process of warming up after a chilly start.

Lake-effect snow will linger in northwest snow belts. Bringing an additional 3 to 6 inches inches to portions of West Michigan, especially in Ottawa, Allegan, Van Buren, and Kalamazoo Counties.

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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.

Lake effect snow slammed southwestern Michigan on the morning of Tuesday, January 21, as the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a winter weather advisory for the region, warning of slick roads, bridges,

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A major winter storm that slammed Texas and blanketed the northern Gulf Coast with record-breaking snow moved east Wednesday, spreading heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida Panhandle, Georgia and eastern Carolinas.

Locally, the grass has only occasionally been coated with snow ever since temperatures spiked into the 50s at the end of December. This has led many, especially snow-lovers, to ask the question: