Winter brings arctic air, freezing rain, snow across U.S.

An ambulance drives on the snow as seen through a window, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015, in Abilene, Texas. Freezing rain affected travel in nearly half of Texas on Monday, and winter storm warnings were issued in the northern part of the state.

By Associated Press February 23, 2015 4 min read

Cold, slushy weather crawled across much of the U.S. on Monday, coating parts of several Southern states in snow, leaving highways dangerously icy in numerous states from New Mexico to Oklahoma to New England, and sending temperatures plunging to 25 to 30 degrees below normal across much of the country.

Here’s what’s happening:

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STORMS IN THE SOUTH

Snow was expected in parts of North Texas, where freezing rain prompted officials to cancel more than 1,000 flights in and out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Monday. The weather also prompted at least a daylong delay in the trial of the ex-Marine charged in the shooting death of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, whose memoir, “American Sniper,” was the basis for the Oscar-nominated movie.