Snow covers sidewalks at the PPL Center in Allentown Friday evening, Jan. 19, 2025, before tapering off. A winter storm brought the Lehigh Valley’s biggest snowfall of the winter so far before temperatures become dangerously cold. (Rich Rolen/Special to The Morning Call)

New Orleans’ has received more snowfall since the start of meteorological winter than many cold weather cities across the county including Philadelphia, New York and Anchorage, Alaska.

The storm that struck New Orleans this week left the Gulf Coast city under twice as much snow as Anchorage, Alaska has received in nearly two months. "New Orleans, we'd like our snow back," the NWS Anchorage office said.