FOX Weather is live with the Weather Wire covering live updates on the massive winter storm impacting more than 100 million Americans across the country.
Click the FOX Weather Wire for live updates.A major winter storm continues to crawl east on Thursday, with heavy snow and ice potentially impacting more than 100 million people across a 2,000-plus-mile swath stretching from Texas and the Southern Plains to the Midwest and Northeast through Friday.Frigid arctic air has moved into the nation's heartland as moisture from the Gulf of Mexico surges northward ahead of a cold front.That moisture is overlapping with the fresh cold air, fueling an expansive area of snow and ice impacting millions of Americans from the nation's southern border to its northern border.Freezing rain, sleet and some snow were ongoing Thursday morning as far south as North and Central Texas, including the Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio metro areas, where icy roads were creating slick travel conditions.
A large area of snow and ice also extended northeastward into parts of the Midwest and interior Northeast. Up to an inch of sleet was reportedly covering the ground around the Little Rock, Arkansas, metro area Thursday morning.The National Weather Service has issued Winter Storm Warnings, Ice Storm Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories from parts of New Mexico and Texas northeastward to New England and northern New Jersey.WEATHER WIRE: 2,000-MILE AREA OF SNOW, ICE CONTINUES TO CRAWL EAST CREATING MAJOR TRAVEL IMPACTSMore than 100 million people are under National Weather Service winter weather alerts for significant amounts of snow and ice.