The cold temperatures are coming from a not uncommon expansion in the Polar Vortex, which are counter-clockwise rotating air currents that typically hang over the Arctic.

The National Weather Service in Lake Charles, LA, issued a blizzard warning about 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, January 21, 2025 for Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana. It is the first blizzard warning ever issued by the Lake Charles weather service office.

For the first time ever, Lake Charles ... the northern Gulf of Mexico is dumping heavy snow and bringing wind gusts in excess of 35 mph across southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana as storm ...

Instead of coming from the West Coast or diving in from the northern Great Plains, this one comes from the Gulf of Mexico. I know what you’re thinking: “How can there be a winter storm from a place with warm moist air?

At least 10 people have died. Officials warned that arctic cold will persist for another day, and roads could remain dangerous. Still, many Southerners found joy in the rare experience.

Mexican president says President Trump can call the gulf whatever he wants but that the world will still call it the Gulf of Mexico.

For the first time in recorded history, Lake Charles ... southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas. The storm, driven by a low-pressure system moving across the northern Gulf of Mexico, has produced ...

Moisture from the Gulf of Mexico was combining with a ... The National Weather Service's Lake Charles, Louisiana, office issued its first-ever blizzard warning Tuesday. The NWS' Mobile office ...

Sponsor Message "Words that I never thought would come out of my mouth," meteorologist Donald Jones said in a briefing from the NWS office in Lake Charles ... from the Gulf of Mexico.

For example, Lake Charles, La., along the Gulf Coast, showed snowfall rates of over 1 inch per hour this morning and early afternoon and visibility down to a quarter of a mile with blowing snow. This is one of the reasons why blizzard warnings were posted briefly for that region earlier.

(Gray News) - President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Monday. “A short time from now we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” he said during ...