Around 40 million people in the U.S. are under a winter storm warning from an unusual blast of severe cold weather and snow across the South.

A historic winter storm swept across the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, bringing heavy snow and icy conditions to the Southeast while most of the country was facing dangerously cold temperatures from an arctic blast that arrived over the weekend.

A winter storm that is expected to begin in Texas next week could end up bringing snow and ice to parts of Florida.

Houston was blasted with at least three inches of snow as a historic winter storm moved across the Gulf Coast and through the city. A historic winter storm will drop rare amounts of snow from Texas across the northern Gulf Coast. Many places will see their heaviest snow in decades, and modern day records could fall.

A major winter storm slammed the US Gulf Coast Tuesday, blanketing parts of a region largely unaccustomed to extreme winter weather with record-breaking snowfall.