A massive winter storm continued Sunday morning, dumping snow, sleet and freezing rain across the South and up through New England, bringing frigid temperatures, widespread power outages and treacherous road conditions.

The dangerous winter storm that is bound to impact about half of Americans across the U.S. will cripple many throughout the weekend. Meteorologist Zoe Mintz has the latest weather forecast.

A massive winter storm continued Sunday morning, dumping sleet, freezing rain and snow across the South and up through New England, bringing frigid temperatures, widespread power outages and treacherous road conditions.

A massive winter storm stretching more than 2,300 miles is sweeping across the United States, placing more than 240 million people in 40 states at risk of snow, ice, and dangerously cold temperatures,

The highly anticipated 2,300-mile-long historic winter storm is underway, forecast to bring winter weather to more than 235 million Americans across 40 states through the weekend and into next week.

The major storm is set to hit starting on Jan. 23 and will stretch into the weekend, spreading snow and ice from the southern Plains to the Northeast.

The U.S. National Weather Service warned of an unusually expansive and long-duration winter storm that will bring widespread, heavy ice accumulation in the southeast U.S. and cited "crippling to locally catastrophic impacts.

The snowfall from a winter storm is expected to impact much of the nation Friday and has triggered thousands of flight cancellations.