A winter storm was on a track to sweep through Texas and Louisiana, across the Gulf Coast and deep into Florida, significant snow and ice in tow.

The blast of Arctic air has made it all the way to the Gulf Coast today. That colder air is meeting up with a juicy coastal storm in the Gulf of Mexico resulting in a blitz of winter weather in areas where winter weather isn't all that common.

High winds and reduced visibility led the National Weather Service to issue warnings along some parts of the Texas and Louisiana coast. Travel could be "dangerous or impossible."