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Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East; Severe Storm Threat in the Gulf States Sunday

A significant winter storm is underway, bringing widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England through Monday. Extremely cold air will follow, prolonging dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week. Severe thunderstorms may produce damaging gusts and tornadoes across the eastern Gulf Coast states Sunday morning and afternoon. Read More >

An Extreme Cold Warning for all of South Central Texas continues through Monday morning. Forecasts lows of 5–22°F and wind chills as low as 5 below zero for the Hill Country. Protect the 4 Ps: People, Pets, Plants, and Pipes.
Protect people, pets, pipes and plants from cold weather. People: 1) Minimize time outdoors. 2) Prepare for power outages. 3) Check on the elderly and other vulnerable people to make sure they're ok. Pets: 1) Keep your pets warm, dry and indoors as much as possible. 2) Ensure their food and water doesn't freeze. 3) Limit outside time and keep them bundled up. Pipes: 1) Insulate pipes if possible. 2) Open up sink cabinets to expose pipes to heated air. 3) Disconnect hoses & turn off water to sprinklers. Plants: 1) Know their temperature thresholds. 2) If possible, cover them before the cold weather sets in to help retain some heat.
It is going to get very cold around here tonight. Overnight lows getting down to the single digits and teens. What about the wind chills? Extremely cold with possible values down to five below zero across the Hill Country and single digits and teens over the rest of the local area.
The frozen precipitation has come to an end most places (there may be freezing drizzle very far southeast part of the local area through 9 AM). Stays cold throughout the day with highs in the 20s and 30s most places with mid to upper 30s along the Rio Grande. Forecast wind chills between 5 below zero to single digits north to teens elsewhere.