Maps show snow totals in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and more states across the southern U.S.

A unprecedented and probably fatal winter storm descended around the southern U.S. on Tuesday, leaving inches of record-setting snow totals and halting go back and forth for thousands and thousands of American citizens in Louisiana, Texas and Florida.

“I used to be born and raised in New Orleans,” Ian Spooner informed CBS Information 24/7. “I will be able to rely on one hand how repeatedly it snowed, and it by no means snowed like this.” The remaining time New Orleans noticed snow was once in December 2004, in line with the Nationwide Climate Carrier, and it was once simply part an inch.

With a lot of the southeast beneath winter weather advisories, together with snow fall caution, here is how the chilly and windy stipulations are impacting the area:

Snow triggers flight delays

No less than 400 flights had been behind schedule and 350 extra have been canceled ahead of noon Tuesday, in line with the flight monitoring corporate FlightAware. Airports in Houston and New Orleans have been close down as snow piled on the entrances. 

A spokesperson for the New Orleans Aviation Board mentioned automated doorways have been shuttered so they do not open and shut right through the hazardous climate tournament.

In Florida, the Tallahassee Global Airport canceled all flights after 3 p.m. and suspended operations till a minimum of midday on Wednesday. The state’s governor and the governors of Georgia and Louisiana have all declared a state of emergency for the hardest-hit spaces.

Snow totals map

In step with CBS Information meteorologist Jessica Burch, 4 to eight inches of snow have fallen throughout southern Alabama, Mississippi and Florida’s panhandle.

The state of Louisiana noticed a record-breaking snow overall of over 10 inches within the town of Rayne. New Orleans noticed just about 9 inches of flurries. There are other snow reporting websites inside of New Orleans, however the oldest data from a sub-station that is now not in provider reported 10 inches of snow in 1895, and 14.4 inches in 1909.

Some other reporting website on the New Orleans Global Airport, which started recording snow accumulation in 1948, reported their very best overall snow listing as 2.7 inches in 1963. All this is to mention, no person alive within the house has ever noticed this a lot snow.

Movies posted by way of citizens to social media confirmed now not handiest the volume of snow however the velocity at which the snow got here down. The tough and exceptional stipulations led the Nationwide Climate Carrier to factor its first-ever snow fall caution for southern Louisiana on Tuesday.

A Snowstorm Caution is going into impact when a space is anticipated to look common wind gusts over 35 mph, in addition to decreased visibility from snow.

Wintry weather climate advisories and iciness typhoon warnings also are nonetheless in impact for portions of Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas.

CBS Information meteorologist Nikki Nolan contributed reporting.