This historic storm is spreading destructive ice and heavy snow over 34 states through Monday including the South, Midwest and Northeast. Here is the very latest forecast.
A winter storm named Fern by The Weather Channel is moving across the South and Southeast this weekend. Multiple states are in the path of the storm’s ice threat, including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas. Once the storm moves north, it’s going to pull some warmer air into the Southeast, allowing precipitation to change over into rain and even fueling a potential weak severe threat.
Winter Storm Fern is dumping heavy snow across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, transforming communities that rarely see winter weather like this. Arctic air crashed into the South overnight, dropping temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal and turning freezing rain into several inches of snow. Some areas are measuring 4 to 8 inches of snow — more than they'd typically see in an entire year. The storm is expected to continue bringing dangerous conditions through the weekend.