A rare winter storm in the US Deep South is causing snowfall and freezing rain, leading to highway and airport closures and the first-ever blizzard warning in southwest Louisiana.
Video footage captures nuns and a priest engaging in a snowball fight in Matairie, Louisiana, and a skier being pulled along a street in Charleston, South Carolina.
Tragically, four deaths attributed to cold exposure have occurred: two cases are under investigation by Austin authorities in Texas, and two deaths from hypothermia have been reported in Georgia and Milwaukee.
This extreme weather is a result of a bitterly cold air mass that has moved into the southern and eastern United States.