Grocery store shelves from Texas to the Northeast are being stripped bare as Winter Storm Fern, described by meteorologists as a 'potentially legendary' event, barrels toward more than half of the US population.
As of Thursday, 22 January 2026, over 200 million Americans are under weather alerts. Governors in Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina have already declared states of emergency, warning of a 'crippling' combination of heavy snow, catastrophic ice, and a polar vortex that could shatter temperature records across 30 states.
