Schools and buildings from Texas to Georgia were shut down Thursday or prepared to close ahead of freezing rain and snow forecast for much of the Southern U.S. as another burst of plunging temperatures and winter storms threatened to again snarl travel.

FOX Weather's Brandy Campbell reports from Frisco, Texas, where snow has started covering the ground as a winter storm moves across the southern U.S.

Texas refineries are bracing for an onslaught of cold, snow and freezing rain as the US South’s first major winter storm sweeps in during what’s projected to be a frigid month.

Parts of North and Central Texas brace for another winter storm this week. The Dallas-Fort Worth area can expect snow, ice and dangerous conditions.