Houston on Tuesday woke up to a blanket of snow not seen in years. The city’s metropolitan area could receive four to six inches of snow by Tuesday afternoon, the most significant winter weather event in decades, forecasters said. Similar totals are expected in the bayous of south Louisiana; in some places, the snowfall in south Louisiana could reach 10 inches or more.
Bradley Brokamp, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said that early morning commutes in the Houston area on Tuesday could be “extremely dangerous,” and that the Weather Service was advising drivers to stay off the roads “at all costs.”
The storm will be the most significant winter weather the Greater Houston area has experienced since at least 1960, forecasters in city said Monday. The blizzard warning, the first ever for some of these areas, will be in force until noon Tuesday for south central, southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, the Weather Service office in Lake Charles, La., said, warning that snow may drop visibility to less than a quarter of a mile.
Wind chills of minus 30 Fahrenheit in the Texas Panhandle, and minus 37 in parts of Iowa were recorded overnight. They are forecast to reach as low as minus 55 in some places through Tuesday morning.
I can’t wait for the car crash videos!
One of my brothers lives in the blizzard warning patch of SW Louisiana, which is utterly insane. My sisters in New Orleans, who have experienced snow on their travels, are probably going to be the ones who clear the sidewalks and drains in their neighborhoods.
Ten inches at my sister’s house in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans, and over 11 inches in the parish downstream of NOLA.
Yeah, libruls are always saying that.