FLORIDA residents have been shocked to find snow on the ground as a historic winter storm is set to sweep through the southeast. Up to five inches are expected to fall in the heaviest snow

Florida and Texas were both under winter storm warning from the National Weather Service (NWS) on Tuesday morning as an arctic air mass caused plunging temperatures and heavy snow along the Gulf Coast.

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

Frigid temperatures engulfed the South on Monday ahead of a winter storm that's expected to spread heavy snow and disruptive ice around a region from Texas to north Florida that rarely sees such weather,