Residents across parts of the Gulf Coast and South are bracing for a rare winter storm expected to drop heavy snow and create treacherous conditions, including freezing rain and sleet.

A lobe of the polar vortex will arrive in the United States this weekend, bringing the lowest temperatures in years and snow and ice to the East and Deep South.

A polar vortex is slated to sweep most of the continental United States bringing a hazardous freeze to millions of Americans from the Deep South to the Northeast Saturday going into next week.

As heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain hit parts of the Deep South, a blast of Arctic air plunged much of the Midwest and the eastern U.S. into a deep freeze.

From Florida to Texas, large chunks of the southern United States were blanketed in snow Tuesday during a historic snowstorm.

The storm has prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border

The blizzard warning in effect until midday Tuesday was the first issued by the office in Lake Charles, Louisiana, according to meteorologist Donald Jones.

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

Over 75 extremely rare sea creatures — about “ 20% of the entire population ” — were spotted off the Maine coast, photos show.

More than 200million Americans are facing a life-threatening deep freeze this week as an arctic blast brings sub-zero temperatures and a thick blanket of snow to much of the US.

The Maine Marine Patrol says they will continue searching on shore and on the water between Lubec and South Addison for Chester ‘Chet’ Barrett and his son Aaron Barrett.

A major winter storm that slammed Texas and the northern Gulf Coast is spreading heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida panhandle and eastern Carolinas.