One National Weather Service (NWS) office in Louisiana issued its first ever blizzard warning, and a curfew was established in parts of Louisiana to keep people indoors through the worst of the storm.

A procession of winter storms is forecast to bring snow, sleet, ice and potentially flood-inducing rain to sprawling bands of the U.S. this week.

Alerts for cold weather are in effect for nearly ... fall to zero — and sometimes well below zero, according to Weather Service forecasts — will cover much of the northern half of the Lower ...

States not familiar with frigid weather also saw brutal cold, including in Texas, Florida and Louisiana. In addition to the extreme cold warnings, there were cold weather advisories, which are ...