National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists are urging people in several states to stay off the roads as a winter storm hits the central and eastern United States on Friday. Millions of people are preparing for dangerous winter weather as a storm takes hold over much of the Midwest,

A polar vortex is expected to bring snow and ice to 26 states and D.C., threatening travel with blizzard conditions and record-low temperatures.

The AccuWeather forecast map, shared with Newsweek, showed that states from the Central and Southern U.S. to the East Coast can expect to see snowfall through Friday night. The states in the forecast include Tennessee, West Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

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.

The pattern had been predicted to form for several months, and weak La Niña conditions were finally officially met this week.

Parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas began to see snowfall on Thursday as Southern states stretching to the Carolinas brace for the storm to reach them on Friday.

A “significant Arctic outbreak” of cold air will cover large swaths of the U.S. starting this weekend, with frigid conditions anticipated to last into mid-January.

The developing storm system is forecast to bring heavy snow, crippling ice and severe weather across the country through the next three days.

The new year is ushering in a major winter storm across a wide swath of the United States, blasting large regions of the country with heavy snow and dangerous ice. 60 million people are under weather

A powerful polar vortex is sweeping across the United States, bringing dangerous blizzard conditions and heavy snowfall to multiple regions. The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued winter ...

Nearly two-dozen states were under winter weather warnings from the National Weather Service as of early Monday.

Another massive winter storm is forecast to pummel the southern and eastern U.S., with impacts from Texas to the Carolinas.