New Orleans tied its single-day snowfall record in a rare winter storm on Tuesday, just as official reports of snow on the Mississippi Coast shattered previous records in a ‘rare’ and ‘historic’ winter storm.

Snow in the Sunshine State doesn't happen very often. But it did. And here are the photos from Pensacola to Yulee to prove it.

New Orleans' famous Bourbon Street was covered in snow during a rare winter storm that also impacted Southern states such as Florida and Texas.

This expert says snowfall in the U.S. South shows'we can’t ignore winter' in changing climate::Houston, Texas:: Bob Henson, Meteorologist, Science writer“What happened this week in the Gulf Coast shows us we can't ignore winter either.