A major winter storm The Weather Channel is calling Winter Storm Fern is expected to bring snow and ice from Texas to the Northeast this weekend.

NWS meteorologists see increasing potential for strong thunderstorms across north Florida and south Georgia on Sunday as ice storm threat shifts north.

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The impending storm is the result of a classic winter setup: a powerful Arctic high-pressure system diving south from Canada meeting an “atmospheric river” of moisture streaming from the Pacific and the Gulf. As these air masses collide, a broad frontal boundary will serve as the tracks for a series of low-pressure systems.

Winter Storm Fern could affect more than 150 million people across over two dozen states.

A large storm system is expected to hit this weekend, with snow and ice from Texas to the Carolinas and up the Eastern seaboard. The winter system could bring more than a foot of snow.

People across a large section of the central and eastern United States are facing predictions of heavy snow and ice starting Friday.

With many Americans still recovering from multiple blasts of snow and unrelenting freezing temperatures in the nation’s northern tier, a new storm is set to emerge this weekend that could coat roads,

According to social media posts by the National Weather Service of Tallahassee, another push of cold air is moving into the Deep South over the weekend.