Another Major Winter Storm to Hit Southeastern US This Week, Forecasters Warn

The impacts will be felt in the Southern Appalachians, the Carolinas, and southern Mid-Atlantic from Jan. 30.

This image taken from a video released by the city of Oxford, Miss., shows crews working on power lines on Jan. 27, 2026. City of Oxford Mississippi via AP

A strong winter storm will bring heavy snow and rain to areas across the southern United States starting Friday, after a system knocked out power to hundreds of thousands just days earlier, national forecasters said.

“There is increasing confidence for significant heavy snow across much of the Southern Appalachians, Carolinas, and southern Mid-Atlantic Friday into Sunday,” the National Weather Service (NWS) said in a Jan. 29 post on its website.