Widespread school closures and power outages will be possible next week as a major winter storm with dangerous snow and ice unfolds across the southern United States.
Soon after Arctic air expands into the south-central and southeastern United States, a storm will brew along the Texas coast and spread a swath of ice and snow eastward across the Gulf Coast states in the week ahead, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. There is the potential for major travel disruptions, many school closures and perhaps widespread power outages.
Rain and drizzle will first break out along the South Texas coast on Monday. As the moisture expands northward as a storm develops along the coast, areas of freezing rain, sleet and snow will begin to fall over central and northeastern Texas from later Monday to Monday night and continue into Tuesday.
As the storm takes an eastward path along the upper Gulf coast at first, snow and ice will continue to press eastward…