About 62 million people are in this storm as declared in several US states.
The deadliest storm of the winter has hit the United States, with forecasters warning that more than 60 million people in the eastern part of the country will face blizzards and some areas will see the most snow in a decade.
The National Weather Service (NWS) on Sunday warned of strong winds, snow and blizzards in areas from the plains to the mid-Atlantic.
A state of emergency has been declared in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia.
More than 60 million people are in the path of the deadly storm, which is expected to plunge the eastern half of the US into freezing Arctic air through Monday, causing widespread disruption.
A winter storm warning has been issued from western Kansas to the coastal states of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, with the widest 2,400km (1,500-mile) area under immediate threat.
“A disruptive winter storm will affect the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic through Monday with heavy snow and ice damage,” the NWS said in its latest report.
The agency warned that areas from northeast Kansas to north-central Missouri could see the “most snow in a decade”.
Scientists say bad weather is becoming more common and worse as a result of human-made climate change.
Flights are disrupted
The first storm of 2025 had already disrupted travel, with Kansas City International Airport announcing the closure of its flights on Saturday “due to increased ice”.
Airline operations resumed after airports and taxis were supported, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said in a tweet.
Temperatures are expected to drop, in some places to below zero degrees Fahrenheit (-18 Celsius) while the US capital of Washington could be covered in five or more layers of snow.
Another concern is freezing rain and snow expected from eastern Kansas to Kentucky and Virginia, creating icy conditions on roads, making travel dangerous, downing trees and power lines, and leaving millions of customers without power during the winter. .
The situation could be particularly dire in the Appalachians, where deadly storms in late September devastated areas and devastated much of the Southeast, including Kentucky.
Many of those areas are still recovering from the storm.
The new storm “could cause significant disruption and danger on our roads and could cause power outages for 24 hours or more before the coldest winter hits Kentucky”, Governor Andy Beshear told an emergency meeting.