Areas affected include southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, western Michigan, northwestern New York, and eastern North Carolina.
Winter storm warnings are in place in several states with heavy snow, freezing rain and dangerously cold temperatures expected.
More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
I’ve been convinced that we are about to experience a very serious and dangerous weather episode,” Houston Mayor John Whitmire said Sunday.
A polar vortex is slated to sweep most of the continental US bringing winter storm warnings and a hazardous freeze to millions.
Midlands residents were greeted by picturesque images of snow-blanketed terrain when waking up Wednesday morning. But the rare whiteout in Columbia, caused by a snowstorm that has since moved out of the area, was accompanied by ongoing winter weather threats.
Authorities say another person has died in the Los Angeles wildfires, bringing the number of deaths to at least 25. Forecasters with the National Weather Servic
Memphis is set to get hit with a cold weather system early this week that could drop wind chills to as low as 5 degrees.
Several states across the U.S. are under alert as the new storm system approaches. Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri have severe weather alerts in effect through Friday, January 10. Meanwhile, Tennessee, northern Alabama, and parts of Indiana and Kentucky will remain under warnings through Saturday.
It’s been a somewhat mild winter so far, but things have certainly changed as winter weather makes its presence known across the Lower 48 states ... The National Weather Service said ...
The coldest air of the season so far will settle across the United States this weekend, producing a blanket of snow in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Sunday, and bringing below-freezing temperatures with dangerously blustery winds to most of the country.