A dangerous winter storm sweeping across the South is dumping heavy snow across Houston and other major metropolitan areas along the Interstate 10 corridor.

A winter storm sweeping through the U.S. South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven't seen before. Moisture from the Gulf of Mexico was combining with a low-pressure system and chilly air to drop significant amounts of snow in some spots.

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

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A very rare winter weather event will pass through the Deep South beginning Monday night, and even down along the Gulf Coast on Tuesday. As an arctic front lifts north across the Gulf of Mexico, a low pressure system will intensify and track eastward and dump Gulf moisture into the cold air for the Gulf Coast states.

Most cities in the region don't have snowplows. Louisiana had 400,000 pounds of salt ready to spread over roads and bridges in preparation for the icy conditions.

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Warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico did not cause the record-setting snowfall, but the conditions may have been an ingredient to the unusual weather.

As freezing temperatures blasted the coast, many turtles were left “cold-stunned” and in need of rehabilitation.

Historic winter storm shatters records across the South, leaving millions grappling with extreme cold and unprecedented snowfall into the weekend.

A powerful and rare winter storm swept across the South on Tuesday, bringing the first-ever Blizzard Warning to the Gulf Coast and blasting communities from Texas to Florida to the Carolinas with record-shattering snow that snarled travel and brought daily life to a halt.