A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday has closed highways and airports and prompted the first blizzard warning for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

The first touches of Winter Storm Enzo arrived in Southeast Texas on Monday night as sleet began to fall in the Houston area . Residents from Waller County to Spring and Porter, Texas recorded sleet, wintry precipitation and flurries of now as the sun set and night swept over the region.

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

Storm Enzo is on the move across the South, bringing rare snow and ice as far south as the Gulf and Southeast coasts. On this page, you'll find maps below that will help to track the storm. Check back throughout the storm,

Winter Storm Enzo is pounding Southeast Texas with snow and ice, and conditions on Houston roads are deteriorating rapidly.

Storm Enzo is sweeping across the South early this week, delivering winter weather to areas unaccustomed to it, such as Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Tallahassee, Jacksonville and coastal Carolinas.

The Weather Channel is calling out expected winter snowfall this week Enzo, their fifth named storm for the 2024-25 winter season. The thing is, winter storm names are not a real thing — at least not for the National Weather Service or any other meteorological agency in North America.