Important Takeaways:

• Millions of people are under winter alerts ahead of a major storm expected to dump snow across portions of the country, including Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi and Kentucky.
• The winter weather triggered alerts for 44 million people from the Mississippi River Valley to the Atlantic Coast. The heaviest snow will fall through Wednesday evening across southeastern Virginia, where the region could see its snowiest day in 15 years.
• Snow and dangerously cold temperatures have already set in across Kentucky, where more than a dozen people have died from weekend winter storms.
• “If the snow wasn’t tough enough, it’s cold right now. It’s going to get dangerously cold tonight and into tomorrow,” Gov. Andy Beshear said at a news conference Wednesday morning. “And then Friday’s going to be really cold, too.”
• The governor said one of the biggest challenges is that some of the hardest-hit areas from this week’s floods “can get another 3 to 4 inches tonight.”
• As the winter storm moves out, cold surges will settle in for the southern Plains and the Gulf Coast. Over the weekend, a rapid warmup will occur in which cities will see a temperature increase of 50 to 60 degrees

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