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.

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

Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter storm takes aim at the South.

The debris appeared to pass directly over the Turks and Caicos, startling vacationers. Aircraft data from flight-tracking websites FlightAware and Flightradar24 showed at least 20 flights that appeared to have been delayed or diverted by the incident.

No one was seriously injured when an airplane reportedly hit a snowbank after it touched down on the runway at Eastern Slope Regional Airport last Friday.

Frigid temperatures engulfed the South on Monday ahead of a winter storm that’s expected to spread heavy snow and disruptive ice around a region from Texas to north Florida that rarely sees

A rare winter storm is sweeping through the Gulf Coast and Deep South, delivering snow, sleet, and freezing rain. Meanwhile, Arctic air is gripping much of the eastern U.S., plunging temperatures to dangerously cold levels.

Airports are readying for major disruptions in Texas, Louisiana and along the Gulf Coast before anticipated wintry blast.

Phoenix Sky Harbor reported 41 canceled flights to destinations like Houston and San Antonio, where a winter storm is expected to bring treacherous conditions.

The state's southern tier woke Monday to the season's biggest snowfall and facing difficult driving in places. "Sections of multiple major interstates and roadways were temporarily closed due to crashes during the winter storm that began Sunday and continued moving through the region this morning,

Millions of people across the northern Gulf Coast braced Tuesday for a rare winter storm that's expected to scatter heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain around the Deep South as a blast of Arctic air plunges much of the eastern U.

Tens of millions of residents along the East Coast are bracing for several inches of snow Sunday followed by dangerously cold temperatures that will grip much of the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine.