The cold temperatures are coming from a not uncommon expansion in the Polar Vortex, which are counter-clockwise rotating air currents that typically hang over the Arctic.

The National Weather Service in Lake Charles, LA, issued a blizzard warning about 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, January 21, 2025 for Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana. It is the first blizzard warning ever issued by the Lake Charles weather service office.

A very rare winter weather event will pass through the Deep South beginning Monday night, and even down along the Gulf Coast on Tuesday. As an arctic front lifts north across the Gulf of Mexico, a low pressure system will intensify and track eastward and dump Gulf moisture into the cold air for the Gulf Coast states.

A new law requiring restaurants in Louisiana to tell their customers the specific country of origin of any seafood being served is causing some confusion among state officials and industry leaders. Act 148 of the 2024 regular legislative session brought sweeping changes to laws affecting restaurants and other food establishments in an effort to protect

A winter storm sweeping through the U.S. South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven’t seen before.

Weather is an important reason, but other factors are also playing key roles. The report comes with demand projected to increase sharply.

The storm that hit the southern United States on Tuesday (Jan. 21) brought record snowfall to south Louisana, with the capital city Baton Rouge recording 7.6 inches of snow, breaking the previous record of 6.5 inches set on Feb. 15, 1895, reported CBS News .

The Krispy Kreme shop wasn’t yet open when Dallas made his appearance in the parking lot. The company, however, is still giving Mitchell, Bennett and Baby Dallas a sweet deal: Free donuts for a year from the store in Dothan. In addition, they offered to host Dallas’ first birthday party in 2026, WTVY reported.

Louisiana’s ambitious plan to save and restore its coastline is stalled amid lawsuits seeking to halt the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project. And now Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has voiced his own concerns about the project which environmental advocates fear could stall the project indefinitely.

Interstate 10 is one of three highways that run coast-to-coast in the United States and a crucial east-west link for the southern Louisiana cities of New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette.

More than 230 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

The ban doesn’t apply to federal waters off the Louisiana coast, but state Attorney General Liz Murrill is challenging the action she calls “blatantly illegal.”