More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

Heavy snow and ice led to thousands of flight cancellations across the country as the ripple effects of the storm trickled through the airline networks. Airlines cancelled nearly half of all flights into and out of Atlanta on Friday, according to airline tracking company FlightAware. Atlanta is home to the world’s busiest commercial airport.

A developing winter storm system is threatening many southern states with a mix of snow, sleet and rain late Wednesday night and into Friday, the National Weather Service says.

Parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas began to see snowfall on Thursday as Southern states stretching to the Carolinas brace for the storm to reach them on Friday.

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The average snowfall for Atlanta is 1.5 inches. Many years have no snow at all, but there have been events that shut down the city. The record is the 8.3 inches that fell back on Jan. 23, 1940, and the most recent snow was just a couple of years ago with .1” falling on the day after Christmas in 2022.

Another massive winter storm is forecast to pummel the southern and eastern U.S., with impacts from Texas to the Carolinas.

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Snow will fall on the beaches of the Gulf Coast and into the Gulf of Mexico as a rare and potentially historic winter storm races from Texas to the Carolinas from Tuesday through Wednesday. Louisiana and Florida are expected to be among the snowiest states in the country.

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