A major winter storm slammed the southern US Tuesday, blanketing parts of the Gulf Coast with record-breaking snowfall in a region largely unaccustomed to extreme winter weather.

Wildfires scorched California, blizzards tore through Texas and now rare heaps of snow have fallen on the Gulf Coast. How much snow, you ask? More than has fallen all winter in Anchorage, Alaska (3.8 inches).

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Florida just saw the most snow on record, with a preliminary 8.8 inches observed in Milton, which is north of Pensacola.

At least two people are reported dead in Houston as a winter storm system disrupted much of the Gulf Coast and other parts of the nation on Tuesday, causing billions in economic losses.

The Biloxi Bay Bridge that connects Ocean Springs and Biloxi on the waterfront remain closed, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation. The Fort Bayou Bridge on Washington Avenue also is closed. Read more about when ice and snow will clear from roads here.

Even if you didn't see snow, the Arctic air blast from the polar vortex is still here. See how to get ready for the cold. When will Mississippi get warm?

Airports are readying for major disruptions in Texas, Louisiana and along the Gulf Coast before anticipated wintry blast.

A snowstorm of historic proportions walloped the Gulf Coast this week, delivering travel-snarling snow from Texas to the Carolinas and breaking records that have stood for more than a century. At least nine people have died across the central and eastern United States,

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already embraced the change. He cited the new name in an executive order earlier this week attributing inclement winter weather to a “low pressure moving across the Gulf of America.

Mississippi State is receiving votes in the Week 11 editions of the AP Poll (22) and the USA Today Coaches' Poll (10).