2025 Gulf Coast blizzard

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The 2025 Gulf Coast blizzard, also unofficially referred to as Winter Storm Enzo by The Weather Channel and media outlets, was a rare and unusually strong winter storm and blizzard impacting much of the Gulf Coast of the United States between January 20 and January 22, 2025. It brought snowfall to regions of the Gulf Coast that rarely receive wintry precipitation. This was the first recorded blizzard on the Gulf Coast and the most significant winter storm in the region since 1895. The storm originated from an area of low pressure that developed in the western Gulf of Mexico along an Arctic cold front on January 20. It moved eastward and dropped large amounts of winter precipitation along the coastlines before it moved offshore on January 22. The storm later evolved into Storm Éowyn in the northeastern Atlantic. Due to the threat of heavy snowfall in cities such as New Orleans, Houston, and Pensacola, states of emergency were declared in almost every state along the Gulf Coast. During the...

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