Significant winter storm blowing through Texas

Aaron Jayjack is in Houston, Texas, where a rare winter storm is bringing blizzardlike conditions from Louisiana to Texas.

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00:00I am here in Houston, Texas, where we are experiencing a rare, possibly once-in-a-lifetime

00:06winter storm here on the Texas Gulf Coast.

00:09And all along the Gulf Coast, the I-10 corridor is currently getting thumped with snow.

00:16We have blizzard warnings, in fact, in the southeastern part of Texas, Beaumont, into

00:20Louisiana, Lake Charles, Louisiana, and this is a first, a blizzard warning along the Gulf

00:25Coast of Mexico.

00:26A snow has been falling here all morning in Houston Metro, downtown Houston, Texas.

00:32And it continues to fall through the rest of the day for a couple, for a few more hours

00:36at least, we'll continue to get this snow to fall.

00:38Likely already experiencing about an inch to two inches of snow, possibly another couple

00:42more inches of snow coming into that four-inch mark, which could be a historic snowfall for

00:47here in Houston.

00:48We did have earlier freezing rain and sleet that was falling, but that has transitioned

00:53now to snow and gusty winds, winds gusting to 25, 30 miles per hour.

00:58Even down further on the coast, Galveston, Texas, winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour

01:02there.

01:03A significant winter storm that's going to cripple the I-10 corridor from San Antonio

01:08to Houston and points to the east, New Orleans, all the way to the Florida Panhandle will

01:13be crippling effects on the I-10 corridor.

01:15Already accidents occurring on the I-10, and it is only going to continue to get worse,

01:20especially tonight as this wet snow freezes over, becomes more of like an ice rink here

01:25in Texas and points to the east, and they don't have a lot of snow removal equipment

01:30here in this part of the country.

01:31So they're going to be reliant on the temperatures warming up and getting that snow to melt before

01:35things can open up like the schools and the airports here in Houston and points further

01:39to the east.

01:40For AccuWeather, I'm Aaron Jajak in Houston, Texas.