A dangerous winter storm sweeping across the South is dumping heavy snow across Houston and other major metropolitan areas along the Interstate 10 corridor.

Mexican president says President Trump can call the gulf whatever he wants but that the world will still call it the Gulf of Mexico.

President Trump said he will sign executive orders to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and Mount Denali to Mount McKinley.

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

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 amount of snow the Gulf Coast States received makes this weather system the worst winter storm in over 120 years. Before 120 years ago, record keeping was unreliable or not recorded at all.

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

The potential name change is more likely to spread confusion than awe — especially if the same body of water is called different names by different countries.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Denali, the tallest peak in the United States,

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 .

Unusually heated temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico may have contributed to the snowstorm, though the main driver of the event was a rare confluence of two other weather factors, said Jay Grymes, Louisiana’s state climatologist.