New Orleans tied its single-day snowfall record in a rare winter storm on Tuesday, just as official reports of snow on the Mississippi Coast shattered previous records in a ‘rare’ and ‘historic’ winter storm.

New Orleans' famous Bourbon Street was covered in snow during a rare winter storm that also impacted Southern states such as Florida and Texas.

This expert says snowfall in the U.S. South shows'we can’t ignore winter' in changing climate::Houston, Texas:: Bob Henson, Meteorologist, Science writer“What happened this week in the Gulf Coast shows us we can't ignore winter either.