A major winter storm has disrupted daily life across the Southern U.S., closing schools for 1.5 million students in Texas, Arkansas, and Virginia. With heavy snow, freezing rain, and temperatures plummeting,

The odds of Winter Storm Cora impacting Central Texas have weakened, the NWS says. Freezing rain Thursday and Friday may still cause icy conditions.

At least 50 million people were under a winter storm warning as of Thursday as the storm spreads along the Gulf Coast Friday, according to the weather service. The storm should weaken by Saturday, bringing lighter snow between 1 and 3 inches to parts of the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic and the Ohio Valley before exiting off the Carolinas.