Snow and ice may bring major travel disruptions and power outages in the South starting Monday evening, forecasters warned.
A winter storm warning has been issued for the Houston area for the first time in nearly two years as a rare Gulf Coast winter storm promises heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain. The National Weather Service in League City,
South-central Georgia and Florida's Big Bend area could see ice totals between a tenth and a quarter of an inch. Tallahassee could get a dusting of snow and a quarter of an inch of ice − enough to make roads impassable and knock out power lines from the winter storm forecast to hit the area.
The Austin-area is expected to get 1-2 inches of a wintry mix of snow and sleet on Monday and Tuesday. Austin ISD and other area school districts have announced closures for Tuesday.
A high impact winter storm will track from Texas to North Carolina from Monday night into Wednesday. Here are the cities where it will hit hardest.
Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter storm takes aim at the South.
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Officials said they will then monitor the weather on Tuesday to see what their plans will be going into Wednesday.
A polar vortex is slated to sweep most of the continental US bringing winter storm warnings and a hazardous freeze to millions.
Places from Houston to New Orleans to Jacksonville could be impacted by a major winter storm next week. FOX Weather Meteorologist Michael Estime has the forecast.