Extreme cold and snow smacked the Gulf Coast states this week, but the polar vortex may not be to blame.

As historic snowfall — in some places more than double-digit totals — fell Tuesday along the Gulf Coast and in the Deep South ...

This cold was certainly extraordinary, but the polar vortex event of January 2019 brought life in the northern and central United States to a frozen halt. At that time in our area, the coldest actual ...