From Texas to New England, the monster storm brings hazardous conditions, prompting warnings to stay off roads.
A person walks in the snow near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on January 25, 2026 [AFP]
More than a million customers across the United States are without electricity and over 10,000 flights have been cancelled as a monster winter storm threatens to paralyse a large part of the country with heavy snowfall and freezing rain.
The storm is forecast to sweep the eastern two-thirds of the nation on Sunday and into the week, plummeting temperatures to below freezing and causing “dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts” to linger for several days, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
As of 2:14pm EST (19:14 GMT) on Sunday, 1,005,641 customers were without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us – most of them in Tennessee, while Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia, Virginia and Alabama were also badly affected.
Heavy snow was forecast from the Ohio Valley to the Northeast, while “catastrophic ice accumulation” threatened from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
