New Orleans, Louisiana got whipped with record-breaking snow, crushing all-time records that were officially taken in the area dating back to 1948.

An area of arctic air plunged into the middle of the United States powerful enough to push all storms around it instead of through it. This cold air dove through the deep south and the timing couldn't be any more perfect. A storm moving along the Gulf coast met up with this cold air over Texas and brushed the gulf coast with record-breaking, once-in-a-generation snowfall that blanketed the region.

Up to a foot of snow fell in places that have never seen that much snow, including the New Orleans area. Snowfall swept through Florida's panhandle, southern Georgia, and off to the coast of the Carolinas, even leaving nearly 4 inches of snow over Myrtle Beach. The storm rapidly moved offshore overnight.

Locally, New Jersey was unaffected - except for the dome of arctic cold air that helped to steer that storm through the Deep South.

Relative to our local weather, New Orleans had experienced more snow this season than we have here in parts of New Jersey, specifically in Newark! Newark normally sees an average of 24.6 inches of snow for the entire winter season.