Winter Storm Gianna is underway in the South, bringing heavy snow to the Carolinas and parts of Georgia before it pivots offshore and deepens into a powerful bomb cyclone that could bring blizzard conditions to the coasts of North Carolina and Virginia.
We'll be tracking the latest from this winter storm all day, so follow below for the latest updates and refresh the page frequently to reveal new entries.
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(06:06 a.m. EST) Cold Alerts Map Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree Again ...
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(05:52 a.m. EST) Gianna Brings A Mess To A Region Already In Bad Shape
This weekend's winter storm will track across some of the same areas hit hard by last weekend's Winter Storm Fern. But luckily, in most of the states hit hardest by Fern — Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana specifically — additional impacts aren't expected from Gianna. That trio of states still has more than 150,000 homes and businesses without power this morning, according toPowerOutage.us.
It has been a very cold, frustrating week for those customers, and a long week for crews who have worked around the clock to restore power and clear tree damage caused by last weekend's ice storm.
(05:30 a.m. EST) Cancellations Mounting At Southern Airports
As we start the morning's coverage, there are already hundreds of flight cancellations at two major hubs in the South. According to the flight-tracking websiteFlightAware, Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International and Charlotte Douglas International are No. 1 and No. 2 in the nation with more than 500 flights canceled into and out of each airport today.
Raleigh-Durham International Airport is a distant third with 120 flights canceled so far. Earlier this week, Hartsfieldled the country in cancellationsdue in part to the ice brought by Winter Storm Fern.