After an extremely impressive snow event and winter fun across SWLA, arctic air and icy roads continue to be a problem.
In the last of a series of calls held by the office to help local officials make decisions on closures and emergency operations, Cramer pointed to some data showing “quite the historic event” in terms of weather.
By Thursday, highs should warm a little more. Another weaker cold front will arrive Thursday night, so low temperatures still should fall below freezing, especially where there is still more snow on the ground. By Friday, temperatures may return to the 50’s for highs.
Though NWS forecasters are still collecting official snowfall counts, these reports give a good look at just how much snow Louisiana saw.
Historic cold temperatures were recorded in Lake Charles overnight. COLD WEATHER RESOURCES: Temperatures dropped into the single digits Wednesday morning on the heels of one of the biggest snow events ever recorded in the city.
A National Weather Service office in Louisiana issued its first-ever blizzard warning on Tuesday amid snow and strong winds.
Southwest Louisiana spent Tuesday morning experiencing — likely for the first time ever — blizzard-like conditions with 35 mph wind gusts, a limited quarter-mile of visibility and up to 6 inches of snowfall recorded.
There's going to be some sort of wintry precipitation in Acadiana Monday night and Tuesday. Here's what we know.
For the first time in the history of the National Weather Service, a Blizzard Warning has been issued for Beaumont, Lake Charles and Lafayette.
A winter storm that rolled through Southeast Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast dumped multiple inches of snow on Tuesday across a region already gripped by freezing temperatures. How much snow did Houston get and how does that compare to the snowfalls in New Orleans and across the deep South and Gulf Coast?
Aside from a water system failure in Lafayette, most of the state’s public utilities faired well Tuesday as a blizzard covered southern Louisiana, but things could change.