Rare Snow Covers South Louisiana and New Orleans

by Amy Judd | December 11, 2008 at 11:45 am

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Snow covered parts of Louisiana and New Orleans today, which closed schools, government offices and bridges, and thousands have been left without power.

Parts of Louisiana were expected to get up to four inches of snow. Snow also covered a broad swath of Mississippi, including the Jackson area, and closed schools in more than a dozen districts. The National Weather Service in Jackson said up to 8 inches was possible in the southern and eastern parts of the state.

A heavy band of snow coated windshields and grassy areas in New Orleans, where the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning.

Office workers stepped out of high-rises to catch a snowflake, snap pictures with cell-phone cameras and swap snow stories.

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Marielle (not verified)

at 14:55 on December 11th, 2008

Those are my puppy's paw prints!!!! Cool!! LOL!

The snow was great--I have never seen it accumulate that much in my entire 26 years!

Alida Antonia Cornelius

at 17:11 on December 11th, 2008

When I was young many years ago, and weather was strange, my father told me that "the jet stream changes every twenty years and that's one reason weather patterns change."

Maybe it's normal for SOME weather patterns to change, but nothing can convince me that humans' polluting of the earth IS NOT contributing to climate change.

Call it what you want, Global Warming, Global Dimming, or just plain friggin' pollution, but I have worked out to sea on commercial fishing boats and I can tell you first hand that the ocean is dying and people are the cause.

And if the ocean dies, we all die with it.

bmooneyatwork

at 15:45 on December 11th, 2008

4th strongest snowfall in Baton Rouge's history, (the largest was in 1895!)

Uwe Paschen

at 16:00 on December 11th, 2008

That is a lot of snow for an area such a Louisiana. I doubt they will have any snow plawes though.

Mary Richard

at 18:20 on December 11th, 2008

Bet they loved it!

Amy Judd

at 18:24 on December 11th, 2008

Good points here - I agree.

christie210

at 18:27 on December 11th, 2008

I woke up early this morning to snow coming down very heavily! I have lived in Baton Rouge all my life and have never seen this here. The last time it was this heavy was in 1973. Very rare event...just beautiful! Very nice treat in Cajun Country!

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Randyjrb1974 (not verified)

at 11:39 on December 30th, 2008

it was very amazing i have lived here all my life alot of people may not remember but we have had snow several times here , the big freeze in Feb 1983 just little bits, in Feb 1988 we had close to 4 inches in Slidell, and Dec 24 1989 we barely got any but New Orleans got something like 3 inches, and the Blizzard of March 1993 , Slidell saw in some places close to 6 inches, just a bit further north Laurel MS had 12 inches, and again on Dec 25 2004 we had barely enough to cover the grass in some spots, and of course Dec 11 2008 we got like 4 inches but didnt last too long though