The storm that struck New Orleans this week left the Gulf Coast city under twice as much snow as Anchorage, Alaska has received in nearly two months. "New Orleans, we'd like our snow back," the NWS Anchorage office said.

New Orleans has received more snowfall since the start of meteorological winter than many cold-weather cities across the country.

The Gulf Coast city that rarely sees snowflakes has received more than double the snowfall that Anchorage has since Dec. 1, the start of the meteorological winter.

Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Kenai Peninsula are under a flood watch from Friday morning through Monday morning.

The Gulf Blizzard of 2025 crashed into the southern portion of the United States this week, impacting 1,500 miles of land between Texas and the Carolinas and wreaking havoc on road safety and air travel. Luckily for the internet, New Orleans is putting the city’s signature Cajun spin on the weather.

It may be January, but the unusually warm, rainy weather feels more like spring breakup, and it’s bringing the kind of flooding concerns also usually not seen in the Anchorage area until later in the year.

While Anchorage may not be getting much snow this winter, plenty of it is falling in several southern states. Four inches of snow had fallen in New Orleans, Louisiana, as of Tuesday afternoon and more was still falling,

New Orleans surpassed its all-time daily snow record Tuesday with 8 inches of snow—that’s more snow than Anchorage, Alaska, has seen this month. With snow and freezing temperatures comes the risk of icy roads.

A series of storms bringing southwesterly is also transporting warm, moist air and making rain, or even mush and ice over many parts of the state! Anchorage will see above normal temperatures, and a mix of rain,

A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across the southern United States on Wednesday, breaking snow records and treating the region to

It may be January, but the unusually warm, rainy weather feels more like spring breakup, and it's bringing the kind of flooding concerns also usually not seen in the Anchorage area until later in the year.

The celebrated New Orleans snowfall is twice what Anchorage has recorded all winter long. Meteorologists attributed it to a perfect dance between weather systems.