(Pasadena) A winter storm that generated severe weather along the Gulf Coast and winter precipitation farther north was sliding east Wednesday, hours after spawning tornadoes that caused heavy damage in the Houston area and left at least three injured in Louisiana.
The storm is now expected to bring dangerous winds to parts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, meteorologists said.
Winter weather advisories are in effect from Missouri to Maine, and parts of New England could receive 8 to 12 inches of snow, according to the US National Weather Service.
The weather system is also dumping snow and ice over a large area of the central United States.
Schools and businesses were closed Wednesday in Oklahoma, where up to 15 centimeters of snow fell in the central and eastern part of the state. More than 100,000 customers were without power Wednesday noon in Arkansas, and nearly 70,000 in Missouri where heavy snow fell in the Ozark Mountains on Tuesday.