FOX Weather's Brandy Campbell is live in New Orleans, covering the winter storm. Photos from Tuesday morning show palm trees dusted with snow and the city in a snowy haze. Heavy snow and freezing fog have been reported in New Orleans for much of the morning, according to the NWS in New Orleans.

Some areas of New Orleans and Houston got more than four inches of snow Tuesday morning in a historic winter storm hitting the south.

NEW ORLEANS — A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.