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The season’s most extreme storm so far is set to lash the eastern half of the United States with damaging ice and heavy snow late this week. It’s all being fed by a brutal blast of Arctic air that’s bringing the season’s coldest air to date.
“Storms are a natural part of Earth's system and are not going away,” William Ripple, co-lead author of the 2025 State of the Climate report, told TIME in an email. “We are not losing storms; we are getting storms that are supercharged with extra water and energy.”
At least 13 people have died and hundreds of thousands across the US are without power as a winter storm sweeps through the country.
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Georgia Winter Storm Warning: Snow totals, timing, and rare -15° wind chill forecast
A Winter Storm Watch now covers the entire Atlanta metro area, moving in from the east.
An extreme winter storm is underway impacting two-thirds of the U.S. Starting Friday and expected to last through Monday, freezing rain, ice, and dangerously low temperatures will stretch from New Mexico to the Northeast. Thousands of flights have been cancelled and power outages are of catastrophic concern especially for the southern states.
The National Weather Service on Friday updated the winter storm watch for Athens to a winter storm warning and added an extreme cold watch for the area.