Roughly 40 million people from Texas to the Carolinas are under winter weather alerts as a rare winter storm amid bone-chilling temperatures brings potentially historic snowfall to cities unused to harsh,

Lingering frigid conditions could continue to disrupt the South in cities not accustomed to the deep freeze that has gripped much of the nation.

A winter storm was on a track to sweep through Texas and Louisiana, across the Gulf Coast and deep into Florida, significant snow and ice in tow.

Interstate 10 reopened to westbound traffic from I-49 in Lafayette to the Texas border, the Department of Transportation and Development announced mid-afternoon Wednesday. The update comes after a historic winter storm brought several inches of snow to the gulf coast and shut down most of I-10 between Texas and Mississippi.

Snowfall will impact parts of central Mississippi Tuesday through mid afternoon.

Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas state line to as far east as Sorrento or Gramercy could be fully open to traffic in both directions at some point Thursday afternoon, Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Joe Donahue said.

Winter Storm Enzo has brought rare, record-breaking snow to parts of the Gulf Coast, snarling travel and resulting in historic snowfall totals from New Orleans to Florida. New Orleans picked up 8 inches, making it the heaviest snowfall there in modern day records (since 1948) and the city's biggest total in over 100 years.

Owen Reilly, 9, was using a metal cookie sheet. “It seemed like it was scientifically impossible for it to snow here,” Owen said, brushing white flakes from his hands. He had never seen it happen in his lifetime.

ARE TRACKING SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. A LOT OF THIS, IF NOT ALL OF IT. REALLY. NOW, SOUTH OF THE METRO. THE REASON WHY THE METRO HAS NOT REALLY HAD ANY SNOWFALL SINCE 430 THIS MORNING IS THE FACT THAT WE HAD A THICK BLOCK OF DRY AIR MOVED THROUGH RIGHT AT THE SURFACE,

Some areas of New Orleans and Houston got more than four inches of snow Tuesday morning in a historic winter storm hitting the south.

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