A major winter storm swept through New Orleans on January 21, 2025, bringing officially recorded snowfall of 20 cm (8 inches), with some reports indicating accumulations of up to 30 cm (1 foot). The storm effectively shut down much of the city, disrupting transportation and daily activities.
A Blizzard Warning has been issued for Tuesday, January 21, 2025, along the Interstate 10 corridor, affecting Southeastern Texas and Southwestern Louisiana. This marks the first blizzard event in the history of the Gulf Coast. The powerful winter storm, described as a ‘once-in-a-generation,’ has already been linked to several fatalities in Texas early Tuesday morning.
A powerful winter storm is set to impact Louisiana and Mississippi on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, bringing heavy snowfall, dangerously low temperatures, and hazardous travel conditions. The National Weather Service (NWS) New Orleans office has indicated that snowfall on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, could be the highest recorded in the area in decades.
Foggy conditions on the Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana led to a massive multi-vehicle pileup involving 40 – 50 vehicles on Tuesday morning, December 17, 2024, injuring 33 people and shutting down the bridge for hours.
Making landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, Francine battered the state with gusts reaching 169 km/h (105 mph) and torrential rainfall. The storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands and prompted rescue operations in the flood-ravaged New Orleans metro area.
Hurricane “Francine” is forecast to make landfall along the Louisiana coast, between the Vermilion/Cameron line and Grand Isle, on Wednesday, September 11, 2024. A life-threatening storm surge and hurricane-force winds are expected, with warnings in effect across Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm is also forecast to bring heavy rainfall, increasing the risk of flash flooding across the region through Thursday.
Dense fog and smoke have combined to form what is known as super fog, heavily impacting Interstate 55 in Louisiana’s St. John the Baptist Parish on Monday morning, October 23, 2023, and leading to a massive vehicle pileup in which at least 7 people lost their lives and more than 25 were taken to hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to critical.
Tornadoes and high winds caused damage and widespread power outages Thursday, March 2, 2023, in Texas and Louisiana, including Dallas-Fort Worth and Shreveport. At the height of the storm, there were more than 350 000 customers without power in Texas, with more than half of them in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where winds up to 130 km/h (80 mph) were recorded.
A destructive wedge tornado ripped through parts of New Orleans, Louisiana Tuesday night, March 22, 2022, causing extensive damage, killing at least one person, and leaving several others injured. This raised the number of fatalities related to the severe weather…
Gulf of Mexico oil producers are still struggling to restart operations after the devastating impact made by Category 4 Hurricane "Ida" on August 29, 2021. With Port Fourchon still in 'Recovery Phase' and the majority of the region's offshore…
