At least eight inches of snow fell in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Contributed Photo)

A nasty winter storm in the southern U.S. dumped as much as 8 inches of snow in New Orleans on Tuesday.

That not only crushed records for the city, but it’s more snow than some areas of New Jersey have gotten this entire winter season.

“The old record was 2.7 inches, on Dec. 31, 1963, and our records date back to 1948,” Hannah Lisney, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s New Orleans forecast office, told NJ Advance Media.

By comparison, some cities in New Jersey — more than 1,200 miles north of southern Louisiana — have gotten less snow than The Big Easy this winter.

Stats from the National Weather Service show Newark has had only 7.2 inches of snow since Dec. 1, and Atlantic City has gotten only 6 inches.

New York City has had just 5.8 inches of snow this season, and Philadelphia has measured only 4.9 inches.

So those two major northern cities also have been out-snowed by New Orleans — in just one day, from a storm that The Weather Channel called a “once-in-a-lifetime snowfall.”

For Lisney, seeing snow pile up in and around New Orleans wasn’t as overwhelming as one might expect.

“I’m a northerner. I’m from Wisconsin, so I’m like, eh,” she said. For other folks down south, however, the feeling was different.

“Lots of people around here were excited,” Lisney said. “Anybody (in the New Orleans area) under the age of probably 40 has never seen this much snow.”

New Orleans wasn’t the only southern city that got blasted by heavy snow on Tuesday.

More than 7 inches of snow was reported in Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida. Almost 10 inches of snow was reported in Milton, Florida, 10.5 inches of snow was measured in Rayne and Lafayette in Louisiana and 11 inches fell in Babbie, Alabama, according to AccuWeather.

In New Orleans, the city that’s hosting the Super Bowl on Feb. 9, the snow isn’t expected to stick around too long. Warmer temperatures in the upper 40s are forecast for later this week.

However, Lisney said overnight temperatures will likely remain below the freezing mark Wednesday night and Thursday night.

“We’re gonna have some melting and refreezing issues the next couple of nights,” she said.

By the weekend, New Orleans is forecast to warm up to the low 50s on Saturday and low 60s on Sunday.