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[SatNews] The frigid temps in the southern U.S. are record breaking and noteworthy in magnitude.

A major winter storm is affecting parts of the Southeast with dangerous ice and snow and is expected to intensify Wednesday evening as it moves up the Eastern Seaboard, affecting locations across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. More than one inch of ice accumulation is possible from central Georgia into South Carolina through Thursday morning.

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The weather alert from NOAA is as follows:

FREEZING RAIN SPREADING INTO THE CAROLINAS...SIGNIFICANT SNOW
ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED IN THE INTERIOR MID-ATLANTIC STATES TONIGHT
INTO THURSDAY...

ICE STORM WARNINGS AND FREEZING RAIN ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT
ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL GEORGIA.

WINTER STORM WARNINGS AND WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT
FROM EASTERN TEXAS EASTWARD ACROSS THE INTERIOR SECTION OF SOUTHEASTERN STATES AND ACROSS MUCH OF THE EASTERN SEABOARD INCLUDING THE APPALACHIANS. WINTER STORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND AS WELL AS ALONG THE WESTERN SLOPES OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL APPALACHIANS.

FOR A DETAILED GRAPHICAL DEPICTION OF THE LATEST
WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES...PLEASE SEE WWW.WEATHER.GOV AT 900 AM EST...A SURFACE LOW WITH ESTIMATED CENTRAL PRESSURE OF OF 1011 MB...29.85 INCHES...WAS LOCATED NEAR THE CENTRAL GULF
COAST APPROACHING THE WESTERN PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA. COLD AIR REMAINED IN PLACE OVER THE EASTERN U.S. TO THE NORTH OF A STATIONARY FRONT JUST OFF THE GULF COAST AND ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATED SNOW WAS BEGINNING TO SPREAD NORTHWARD INTO NORTH CAROLINA.

BUT FARTHER SOUTH...SNOW HAD CHANGED OVER TO FREEZING RAIN FROM WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA WESTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...INTO NORTHERN-CENTRAL GEORGIA AND NORTHERN ALABAMA.

THE BACK EDGE OF THE WINTRY MIXED PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING INTO LOUISIANA AND EASTERN ARKANSAS.  MEANWHILE...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA AND INTO SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.

...SELECTED STORM TOTAL SLEET IN INCHES FROM 700 PM EST MON FEB 10
THROUGH 900 AM EST WED FEB 12...

   ...SELECTED STORM TOTAL FREEZING RAIN ICE AMOUNTS IN INCHES FROM
700 PM EST MON FEB 10 THROUGH 900 AM EST WED FEB 12...