Snowfall across South Carolina has shut down schools and government offices and created hazardous roads. E-learning and delays continue through Wednesday.
Windchill overnight could bring the temperature down to the single digits in parts of the Midlands, leading to snow accumulation according to the National Weather Service.
Historic winter storm shatters records across the South, leaving millions grappling with extreme cold and unprecedented snowfall into the weekend.
School districts announcing changes in South Carolina for Wednesday due to snow: We will add to this list if other districts make changes:Oconee County:eLearning for Wednesday, January 22ndAfter driving roads throughout the county and conversations with Oconee Emergency Management,
A rare whiteout in Columbia, which was <a href=" by a snowstorm that has since moved out of the area, was accompanied by ongoing winter weather threats in the state.
Areas affected include southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, western Michigan, northwestern New York, and eastern North Carolina.
A major winter storm that slammed Texas and blanketed the northern Gulf Coast with record-breaking snow moved east Wednesday, spreading heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida Panhandle, Georgia and eastern Carolinas.
Thursday's women's college basketball showdown between LSU and South Carolina has been postponed to Friday due to weather.
Residents throughout northeast South Carolina and coastal North Carolina woke up to something unusual Wednesday morning: snow. Overnight some areas in the region saw as much as five inches of snow, according to reports from local meteorologists in the Grand Strand. This is the most snow the region has seen in at least a decade.
Charlotte faces “dangerous” low temperatures and wind chills from an approaching Arctic air mass, National Weather Service meteorologists said in an alert Thursday. “ Confidence is high that it will be very cold next week,” forecasters said earlier on the social media site X.
Instead, late January is usually when South Carolina gets snow — which lines up with the most recent winter events. “I have snow records for Columbia going back to 1949 … the most common time for us to see snow is actually this time of year … the last 10 days of January,” Lavoie said.