A massive winter storm continues to hit large parts of the country, dumping snow, sleet and freezing rain.
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25, 2026. Pedestrians walk and ride their bike as heavy snow falls, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in New York. Icicles form on a mailbox on a neighborhood street as a winter storm moves through Nashville, Tenn,, Sunday, Jan,. 25, 2026. A person walks across a street during a winter storm in Philadelphia, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. A massive winter storm continued Sunday morning, dumping sleet, freezing rain and snow across the South and up through New England, bringing frigid temperatures, widespread power outages and treacherous road conditions.were expected to continue through Monday in much of the country, followed by very low temperatures, causing “dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts” to linger for several days, the National Weather Service said.Heavy snow was forecast from the Ohio Valley to the Northeast, while “catastrophic ice accumulation” threatened from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. “It is a unique storm in the sense that it is so widespread," weather service meteorologist Allison Santorelli said in a phone interview."It was affecting areas all the way from New Mexico, Texas, all the way into New England, so we’re talking like a 2,000 mile spread.” As of Sunday morning, about 213 million people were under some sort of winter weather warning, she said. The number of customers without power was approaching 800,000, according to Tennessee was hardest hit with more than a quarter of a million customers out, and Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi all had more than 100,000 customers in the dark. More than 10,000 flights had already been canceled Sunday and another 8,000 have been delayed, according to the flight trackerEven once the ice and snow stop falling, the danger will continue, Santorelli warned. “Behind the storm it’s just going to get bitterly cold across basically the entirety of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, east of the Rockies," she said. That means the ice and snow won't melt as fast, which could hinder some efforts to restore power and other infrastructure. President Donald Trump had approved emergency declarations for at least a dozen states by Saturday, with more expected to come. The Federal Emergency Management Agency pre-positioned commodities, staff and search and rescue teams in numerous states, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. Nashville and the surrounding area was seeing ice accumulations of half an inch or more, with icicles hanging from power lines and overburdened tree limbs crashing to the ground. "We typically say that once you start seeing, you know, roughly a half an inch of ice, that’s when you’re going to start seeing the more widespread power outages,” Santorelli said. In Oxford, Mississippi, police on Sunday morning used social media to tell residents to stay home as the danger of being outside was too great. Local utility crews were also pulled from their jobs during the overnight hours. “Due to life-threatening conditions, Oxford Utilities has made the difficult decision to pull our crews off the road for the night,” the utility company posted on Facebook early Sunday. “The situation is currently too dangerous to continue,” it said. “Trees are actively snapping and falling around our linemen while they are in the bucket trucks. We simply cannot clear the lines faster than the limbs are falling.”“You know it's bad when Waffle House is closed!!!” the Cherokee County Sheriff's office posted on Facebook with a photo of a shuttered restaurant. Whether the chain's restaurants are open — known as theCopyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Early Sunday driving conditions in metro Houston during winter stormDangerous winter weather forecasted to move into Houston Saturday nightHouston opening 12 warming centers for weekend freezeHere's all the weather we're expecting in Houston this weekend!Essentials to keep in your car ahead of Houston's winter storms!3,300 workers on standby for CenterPoint Energy ahead of Texas' winter stormsIcing poses biggest threat for northern part of CenterPoint service areaHow to protect your sprinkler system during Hard Freeze
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