The U.S. Coast Guard has started calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America," shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin changing the name.

Why stop at Gulf of America? Our maps are full of foreign names and languages — including a Palm Beach resort with a Spanish name.

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the main stream of said Suwannee River to the Gulf of Mexico; thence along said Gulf of Mexico, including the waters of said gulf within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the mouth of the Steinhatchee River."

A winter storm was on a track to sweep through Texas and Louisiana, across the Gulf Coast and deep into Florida, significant snow and ice in tow.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already embraced the change. He cited the new name in an executive order earlier this week attributing inclement winter weather to a “low pressure moving across the Gulf of America.

A historic winter storm is about to unfold across the Gulf Coast states with accumulating snow and dangerous ice from Texas to Florida ... This includes Jacksonville, where ice accumulations ...

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) started using the term “Gulf of America” to refer to the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, one day after President Trump signed an executive order setting in motion the

Mapmakers and teachers are rethinking what to call the body of water between Mexico, the U.S. and Cuba after President Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida Panhandle, Georgia and the coastal Carolinas on Wednesday after breaking snow records in Texas and Louisiana, treating the region to unaccustomed perils and wintertime joy.

A powerful winter storm, fueled by a whirling mass of Arctic air, brought much of the Sun Belt to a standstill and plunged temperatures into the teens. Warmer temperatures weren’t expected until the weekend.

With roads shut and over 2100 flights cancelled, life has come to a standstill in the southern US stretching from South Texas to Jacksonville in Florida.