The idea of snow or ice to the gulf coast during Christmas week is certainly something modeling is seeing, In fact, a whole battle zone from Texas to the mid-Atlantic states and northeast has the implications of the what the GEFS ensembles are saying. It fits with the push dictated by the models..png)
Very interesting how modeling has a target deep in the heart of Texas by Christmas day

for the nation as a whole, this looks like the coldest and snowiest 10-day end to a year in many a year ( since 2000)

cfsv2 10 day

That was the year it snowed for the Independence Bowl in Shreveport

Snow and ice into the deep south certainly on the table again