A major winter storm slammed the southern US Tuesday, blanketing parts of the Gulf Coast with record-breaking snowfall in a region largely unaccustomed to extreme winter weather.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The body of water has shared borders between the

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

TALLAHASSEE — After President Trump on Monday issued an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis jumped on the idea. In an order he issued about this week's winter storm, DeSantis referred to an "area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America."

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Denali, the tallest peak in the United States,

A well-predicted and historic winter storm impacted the Deep South this week. I am staring out of my office window at a frozen landscape and 14 degrees F temperature in my part of the metropolitan Atlanta area.

The Triangle got its second snowfall of 2025 Tuesday evening. By 10 p.m., the National Weather Service reported that a dusting to more than an inch of snow had fallen over much of central and Eastern North Carolina, leaving out only the northernmost section toward the Virginia line.

A high-impact winter storm will track from Texas to North Carolina from Monday night into Wednesday. Here are the cities where it will hit hardest.

Millions across the Gulf ... coast, this could be the biggest snow and ice storm in more than 100 years and possibly one that people may remember for decades. The major southern United States ...

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold ... Moderate-to-major impacts are likely along the Gulf Coast as a result of this storm, according to NOAA’s ...

Millions across the Gulf Coast states ... to Florida and Georgia, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. The storm threatens to shut down travel for days and cut power for an extended period in part of the region. The major southern United States cities of ...