Follow live winter storm updates and breaking weather news as snow storms are predicted to fall across the U.S. this weekend, impacting states as far south as Texas.

Millions of Americans from New Mexico to the Carolinas are bracing for a potentially catastrophic ice storm that could crush trees and power lines and knock out power for days, while many northern states all the way to New England could see enough snow to make travel nearly impossible,

High-resolution data is starting to filter in, and the National Weather Service may expand the Winter Storm Watch into the heart of the Atlanta area later today.

Officials urge residents to prepare now.

State and local agencies are mobilizing, with GDOT preparing road treatments and power crews on standby in case of outages.

The FOX 5 Storm Team issued Storm Alert Days for Saturday and Sunday as a "destructive" ice storm threatens North Georgia and metro Atlanta.

The path of an approaching winter storm is not clear yet, but much of the country, including places unused to frigid weather, is bracing for the worst.

A winter ice storm paralyzed metro Atlanta and the north Georgia region for two days in January 1973. ATLANTA — As Atlanta and the broader Southeast brace for what could be a very major winter storm, it's worth looking on one of the worst ice storms in the city's modern record: the January, 1973 ice event.

Gov. Brian Kemp declared a State of Emergency for all of Georgia during a virtual update about the approaching winter storm on Thursday morning.