The Latest: Rare snow flurries seen in New Orleans

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 2:27 pm, Friday, December 8, 2017



ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on winter weather impacting a wide swath of the South (all times local):

3:25 p.m.

. . .

Cold rain and sleet fell through much of Friday and snow was part of the mix at times. Temperatures in the city were expected to hover above freezing so no accumulation of snow was expected.

The winter weather was complicating travel in and around the city.
 
Police organized motorists in slow-moving convoys to prevent accidents on the weather-slick 24-mile long causeway bridge that links the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain to suburbs west of New Orleans.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/The-Latest-Snow-falling-in-parts-of-north-Georgia-12415454.php

[riversedge]

1. Walking in the winter wonderland.

[IronLionZion]

2. This proves global warming was just a liberal myth

[scarletwoman]

3. Straight out of Breakfast at Tiffany's:

"Snow flurries expected this weekend in New Orleans." Isn't that just the weirdest? I bet they haven't had snow in New Orleans for a million years. I don't know how he thinks them up.

[colorado_ufo]

4. I saw snow for the first time in 1963, when I was sixteen years old.

New Year's Eve, in New Orleans. Three inches! Tarps covered Sugar Bowl Stadium to try to keep the field dry for the New Year's Day football games. Traffic - a mess! Nobody has snow tires down there, and they are clueless as to how to drive in the stuff.

My family built snowmen and took pictures. Dad got pretty creative with dressing his up! It was, actually, magical.

Now here I sit today in Western Colorado, and it was close to 50 degrees today. Mother Nature has a sense of humor!

[GulfCoast66]

9. My first snow was in Baton Rouge. 1973. I was 7

We made a snowman that lived in my mind as the best one ever. Going through mother’s photos a few years ago and found a photo of it.

Maybe 3 feet tall and more Live Oak leaves than snow! Ruined my memory!

[Abouttime]

5. The climate is spinning out of control

And the orange shitgibbon in the White House pulls us out of the Paris Climate Accords.
Fires in California, snow in Houston and New Orleans, with this guy in charge we are fu<Jed.

[Ferretherder]

6. I lived in New Orleans in the late '80's and early '90's.

I remember one late afternoon into early evening, somewhere around '90 or '91, when we got 5 to 6 inches of snow! Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, could remember anything like that having happened there, in their lifetimes. I am a firm believer in human activity on Earth being the main cause, as well as the accelerator, of global warming, but strange weather phenomena like snowfalls in the Big Easy are NOT unprecedented....just rare as hell!

...and you REALLY should have been there to see my fellow deep- south denizens trying to drive in 6 inches of snow.......not pretty!.....but, pretty damned funny!

[mpcamb]

7. The winter the Saints won the Superbowl it snowed in NOLA, memorialized in a Susan Cowsill song.

It was ~4 months after Katrina.

[GulfCoast66]

8. Saints fan here

Katrina - 2005

Saint magical, joyful, city changing, region changing Super Bowl victory - 2010.

And it snowed that winter in the big easy. Hope history repeats.

[mpcamb]

10. Oops. Sorry about dates.

Shouldn't have gotten that wrong; I was watching old Treme episodes recently.