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A winter storm covered New Orleans with snow on Tuesday, January 21.
INTERNATIONAL – These are rare images in a city where the thermometer rarely drops below fifteen degrees. A winter storm covered New Orleans with fresh snow on Tuesday, January 21.
The storm even prompted the National Weather Service to issue the first-ever blizzard warning for southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, the Weather News Channel reports Fox Weather.
Jazz and ski session in the streets
As you can see in the videos belowthe palm trees are covered in snowflakes and strong gusts blow across the « Big Easy ».
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While at least five centimeters of snow have fallen in recent hours, residents of New Orleans have already put on skis to celebrate this unusual moment, as you can see in the tweet video below.
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Other Americans immortalized the event by playing jazz in the streets, giving an enchanting atmosphere to the city.
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“I would say it’s a poet’s snow”declared to New York Times Kevin Bennett, a writer who took out a folding chair in the French Quarter to smoke a cigarette in the swirling white flakes.
But beyond the beauty of the snowy landscape, the city is paralyzed, reports the American daily. Major bridges and highways were closed Tuesday, and several roads are impassable. Schools and businesses were unable to open.
According to climatologist Jay Grymes cited by the New York TimesLouisiana has not experienced winter conditions like this since the 1960s.
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