Winter storm forming: Havoc from Texas to Northest

The weekend is going to be full of wintry weather for million of people from the Plains and Texas all of the way into the South and Northeast. The kitchen sink of snow, sleet and freezing rain will produce dangerous travel through early next week.

The wintry weather kicks off today with a developing low pressure system moving out of the Southwest and into the southern Plains. The WeatherRadar shows it quickly moving into the lower Mississippi Valley and into the South and Southeast on Saturday. It will move up the East Coast on Sunday before departing New England on Monday.

Ahead of the winter storm, the TemperatureRadar is showing arctic air sweeping across the Plains, Midwest, interior South, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast.

Widespread subfreezing temperatures mean that significant snow and freezing rain will be possible from the Plains to the Northeast. Significant freezing rain will ice roads and cause power outages from northern and eastern Texas eastward into the Mississippi Delta region, Tennessee Valley and Carolinas. Dallas, Shreveport, La., Tupelo, Miss., Nashville, Atlanta, and Charlotte.

Heavy snow will fall to the north of ice storm, with widespread accumulations of 6 to 12 inches falling from the southern Plains into the Northeast. This includes the south-central Plains, central Mississippi and Ohio valleys, the central and northern Appalachians and the I-95 corridor from Washington to Boston.

Weather & Radar meteorologists will be here all weekend long to provide the latest updates.