Some southern states are bracing for their biggest winter storm in several years as snow falls from the Rockies to the East Coast. On Thursday, the weathers start to deteriorate in northern and western Texas,

The wintry blast, which the Weather Channel has dubbed "winter storm Cora," will likely be felt in the southern U.S. from Texas to the Carolinas.

The winter storm is beginning to get underway in the western half of Texas this morning, where it's producing a mixture of snow, sleet and freezing rain, as depicted in the radar snapshot below. This wintry weather will only become more widespread through the day as it heads east toward northern Texas,

Brutal cold will open the door for a winter storm to take a somewhat unusual track through the South and create treacherous conditions.

Storm Cora tracks eastward, the Carolinas, including Greenville, Columbia, Charlotte and Raleigh, will get a taste of some wintry precipitation. Here’s the forecast for who could see snow and ice, how much is expected and when it will fall.