While Southern California continues to grapple with several devastating wildfires, a massive winter storm is set to bring heavy snow and ice for around 50 million people across the U.S. South.

A powerful winter storm that dumped heavy snow and glazed roads with ice across much of Texas and Oklahoma lumbered eastward into southern U.S. states overnight, prompting governors to declare states of emergency and shuttering schools across the region.

Winter weather will bring snow and cold temperatures to 13 Southern states this weekend as a winter storm moves across the U.S. Millions of people are preparing for dangerous winter weather as a storm takes hold over much of the Southern and Central U.