Overview
- At least 20 states have issued emergency declarations as federal, state and local teams mobilize, with FEMA staging supplies and New York activating the National Guard.
- More than 14,000 flights were canceled over the weekend, with major disruptions at hubs including Dallas–Fort Worth, Charlotte Douglas and Nashville, according to FlightAware.
- Hundreds of thousands lost electricity across multiple southern states as ice downed trees and power lines, with significant outages reported in Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi, per poweroutage.us.
- The National Weather Service warns parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast could see 30–60 cm of snow and dangerously low wind chills that make travel hazardous or impossible.
- Mexico’s meteorological service (SMN) cautions that a third winter storm interacting with Cold Front 30 and Arctic air is bringing very heavy rain, snow or ice and severe winds to northern states.