Brutal cold will open the door for a winter storm to take a somewhat unusual track through the South and create treacherous conditions.

The most unusually cold air in the Northern Hemisphere will be over the United States early next week, bringing dangerously frigid conditions.

Dangerously cold weather spread over the Midwest on Saturday and is headed toward the East Coast, where temperatures well below seasonal norms are expected starting late Sunday and into next week.

Some southern states are bracing for their biggest winter storm in several years as snow falls from the Rockies to the East Coast. On Thursday, the weather starts to deteriorate in northern and western Texas,

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Snow and ice may bring major travel disruptions and power outages in the South starting Monday evening, forecasters warned.

A Siberian chill is on the horizon, threatening to plunge the U.S. into a deep freeze in parts of the east coast

More than 170 million people across the United States, from the Mexican border to the Canadian border are under cold weather alerts ahead of a crippling winter storm expected to sweep through the south from Texas to Georgia,

Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) told Newsweek: "ERCOT has issued a Weather Watch from January 20-23 due to predicted extreme cold weather across the ERCOT region, higher electrical demand, and the potential for lower reserves. Winter precipitation is also expected across parts of the state.

With one storm safely out to sea, attention turns to the next system that's forecast to spread a wintry mess from Texas to the East Coast this week.

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

Tens of millions of residents along the East Coast are bracing for several inches of snow Sunday followed by dangerously cold temperatures that will take hold in much of the country from the