Massive winter storm takes aim at I-95 corridor as temperatures plunge in Texas: Latest forecast

Icy roads are a threat from New Jersey to New York City to Boston.

February 4, 2022, 2:55 PM

The monster storm that dumped more than 1 foot of snow from Missouri to the Northeast is continuing its push east, bringing ice to the Northeast and freezing temperatures to Texas.

A motorist cleans his vehicle of snow, Feb. 3, 2022, in Indianapolis.
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With 5,210 flights canceled Thursday nationwide, including over 1,400 in Dallas, the day marked the highest number of weather-related cancellations since March 14, 2017.

The latest

The heavy snow is stretching from western Pennsylvania to Maine Friday afternoon, bringing over 1 foot of snow to some areas.

Icy conditions are spreading across eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, New York's Hudson Valley and parts of New England, including Boston.

The storm is dropping rain from Washington, D.C., to New York City.

Tracking the storm 7 p.m.
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The storm moves out of the Northeast Friday night. But temperatures will continue to plummet in the Northeast Friday night, so whatever rain or freezing rain falls will freeze on any untreated roads during the evening commute.

Those in the Northeast will wake up to freezing temperatures Saturday, with the wind chill forecast to plunge to 4 degrees in Boston, 6 degrees in New York City and 9 degrees in Washington, D.C.

An arctic blast is arriving Saturday morning.
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Texas faces a freeze

The storm dumped 1.7 inches of snow in Dallas -- more than the city usually sees in an entire year.

PHOTO: Misty Huckabey ventures out with her dog, Buddha, to play fetch at The Shops at Park Lane, Feb. 3, 2022, in Dallas.
Misty Huckabey ventures out with her dog, Buddha, to play fetch at The Shops at Park Lane, Feb. 3, 2022, in Dallas. More than 200,000 homes and businesses lost power across the U.S. on Thursday as freezing rain and snow weighed down tree limbs and encrusted power lines.
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Cars drive through downtown after a winter storm on Feb. 3, 2022 in Dallas.
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The storm even brought freezing rain down to Texas' Gulf Coast. Police in Houston are urging drivers to stay off the roads due to ice, and Houston schools are closed Friday.

This storm comes one year after Texas' power grid disaster, when back-to-back winter storms left more than 4 million people without heat and safe water. It took days for power to be restored, and more than 100 people died because of subsequent blackouts. Months later, Abbott signed a bill to reform the state's power grid.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott assured residents Friday, "The power grid continues to perform well at peak demand during this winter storm. … The Texas electric grid is more reliable and more resilient than has ever been."

In an aerial view, U.S. and Texas state flags fly over car dealerships as light traffic moves through snow and ice, Feb. 3, 2022, in Irving, Texas.
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But Texans are still feeling the freeze with the wind chill -- what temperature it feels like -- hitting about 8 degrees in Dallas, 7 degrees in Austin and 1 degree in Lubbock on Friday morning.

Saturday morning the wind chills will fall to the teens from Texas to Georgia.

Heading into Friday night, Abbott warned, "It is anticipated that the entire state will be in a freezing or below freezing temperature situation."

John Paul Vasquez rests on a cot at an emergency cold weather shelter during a winter storm, Feb. 3, 2022, in Dallas.
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ABC News' Sam Sweeney contributed to this report.

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