More than 1 million homes and businesses nationwide are without power Friday due to the winter storm blowing its way across the U.S., which is one of the largest ever recorded.
Outages from the storm are reported in 25 states.
North Carolina has the most outages at more than 165,000 as of 10:40 a.m. EST, according to PowerOutage.us. Virginia has more than 92,000 without power, Connecticut has nearly 90,000 outages and Texas has more than 82,000 off the grid.
The number of outages is expected to grow throughout the day as the storm continues to blast states with strong winds and ice.
The National Weather Service says more than 200 million people are under winter weather advisories or warnings - covering about 60% of the country.
"Winter weather hazards remain in effect from the Canadian border south to the Rio Grande, Gulf Coast and central Florida Peninsula while spanning from the Pacific Northwest to the Eastern Seaboard," the NWS said, adding that this is "one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever."
The heaviest snow will be in Buffalo, where 2-4 feet is expected. Meantime, some of the coldest temps were recorded in Denver, where it reached -24 degrees on Thursday -- the coldest it has been in 32 years.
More than 4,400 flights have been cancelled as the storm brings snow, heavy winds, and freezing cold to much of the U.S. Amtrak has also suspended train service for many Midwest and cross-country lines.
"This system will have increasingly widespread impacts to travel going into the busy holiday travel time late this week, along with the potential for power outages from the expected high winds, heavy snows, significant icing and overall increased power consumption in places," the NWS said.
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