A powerful winter storm that battered Texas and dumped record snowfall across the northern Gulf Coast moved eastward overnight, bringing heavy snow and freezing rain to parts of the Florida Panhandle, Georgia, and the eastern Carolinas.
Around 40 million people, mostly in the southern U.S., were under various weather warnings, including over 21 million under a winter storm warning, said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Maryland.
