A record-setting winter storm is pushing east this morning after blanketing much of the Gulf Coast in snow and freezing temperatures. The weather grounded flights in states like Texas and Florida on Tuesday.

An already active winter is about to shift into overdrive as a trio of storms over the weekend and into next week deliver snow to the Midwest, East and possibly as far south as the Gulf Coast.

Weather forecasters and public agencies issued health and power loss warnings Tuesday as a “rare winter storm" gripped parts of the southern and eastern United States."A bitterly cold airmass will remain in place for much of the South and eastern U.