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Snow covers New Orleans as winter storm slams parts of the South
New Orleans residents enjoy weather as Texas and northern Gulf Coast see blankets of snow
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Could New Orleans see a bigger snowstorm than Boston this winter? Unprecedented snowfall threatens Gulf Coast on Tuesday.
As a meteorologist, waking up to 4 to 6 inches of snow locally is certainly fun and interesting, but well within typical January weather for Southern New England. For me, what’s really interesting is what is forecast to take place across the Gulf Coast Tuesday with a perhaps unprecedented amount of snow for a very wide swath from Texas to parts of Florida.