Once in a generation snow & ice storm Texas to Alabama I-10 corridor Houston to New Orleans

Once in a generation snow & ice storm

Texas to Alabama I-10 corridor Houston to New Orleans

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Once in a generation snow & ice storm

Texas to Alabama I-10 corridor Houston to New Orleans

Areas from East Texas from San Antonio and Corpus Christi northeast to the major cities of Houston and New Orleans are about to experience what could be a crippling snow and ice storm over the next 2 days. Winter Storm Warnings are posted from the National Weather Service in places where you can go 10 or 20 years without ever seeing a snow flake or an ice pellet. Many of these cities and towns along the I-10 corridor have no means of removing snow from roadways. Given the bitter cold arctic air that covers the Deep South, this certainly shut down normal travel along the I-10 corridor from Houston to New Orleans and possibly eastward to the Florida Panhandle. Some airports in this are like Houston for example have already pre announced they will be shutting down ahead of this storm system.

 

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Snow of 4 to 6 inches in northern states would be commonplace and inconvenient but minimally disruptive. In the Deep South and along the Gulf Coast it is almost unheard of. Many people who live here have never seen snow before. There will be an east west band of 4 to 6 inches of accumulation forecast from Southeast Texas into Southern Alabama. Snow will be sticking to everything with temperatures below freezing and in the 20s through most of this event. Snow will begin sometime Monday night in East Texas and spread to Alabama and Georgia Tuesday

An arctic cold front has passed throught the Deep South and lies across the Gulf of Mexico. Easterly winds from the Bahamas to Texas over relatively warm Gulf of Mexico waters will be overrunning bitter cold arctic air that lies all across the South and Southeast US. Preciptation breaks out in South Texas tonight and spreads northward into that cold air. Snow develops in Southeast Texas. To the south to San Antonio, Austin, and Corpus Christi it will be a wintry mix of snow ice and freezing rain.

Snow and ice spread eastward across the lower portion of the Gulf States Tuesday from Louisiana to South Georgia and North Florida. Eventually the snow and ice will move into the Southeast US coast from Georgia to the Carolinas Tuesday night into Wednesday before exitiing to the east. Winter Storm Watches are posted in these areas and we will likely see the National Weather Service issue additional warnings for this developing sytem. We can expect travel across the entire South and Southeast US to be extremely difficult and in some cases impossible with numerous disruptions and delays across most airports. Road travel in the Winter Storm Warning zone will be nearly impossible so it is wise to prepare ahead of time.

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