The storm has prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border

Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter storm takes aim at the South.

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No one was seriously injured when an airplane reportedly hit a snowbank after it touched down on the runway at Eastern Slope Regional Airport last Friday.

A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights

Tens of millions of residents along the East Coast are bracing for several inches of snow Sunday followed by dangerously cold temperatures that will grip much of the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine.

Pic: AP The winter storm is being driven by a polar vortex, usually located around the North Pole, which has dipped south and stretched from between the Rocky Mountains to Maine. Elsewhere ...

The Northeast was expected to get several cold days, said Jon Palmer, a weather service meteorologist based in Gray, Maine ... according to tracking platform FlightAware. Ronald Reagan Washington ...

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Phoenix Sky Harbor reported 41 canceled flights to destinations like Houston and San Antonio, where a winter storm is expected to bring treacherous conditions.