Meteorologist Henry Margusity issues a stark warning for a severe winter storm developing Friday night in the Southern Plains and tracking northeast through the weekend. While weak clipper systems are currently bringing light snow to the Midwest, a massive arctic high is pushing freezing air southward, setting the stage for a dangerous ice event across the South—including Atlanta, Shreveport, and Houston—where significant ice accumulation, power outages, and travel shutdowns are likely.
As the system moves northward by Monday morning, it is expected to dump heavy snow along the I-95 corridor, impacting major cities from Washington D.C. and Baltimore up to Philadelphia and New York City. Margusity emphasizes that this is just the beginning of a prolonged wintry period, predicting that the active storm track and deep cold will persist for another four to six weeks, potentially lasting well into March due to a "stratospheric warming event
