A sprawling, high-impact winter storm continues to affect the Lower 48 states, with the worst effects felt in the Upper Midwest, Northeast and West Coast Thursday.
The big picture: As rare blizzard warnings were issued for the Southern California mountains, combined outages due to ice, high winds and heavy snow across the U.S. left more than 800,000 customers without power as of early Friday.
A sprawling, high-impact winter storm that will soon stretch from coast to coast has at least 75 million people in the U.S. under winter weather alerts on Thursday.
The big picture: The National Weather Service (NWS) describes the storm's reach as "massive" and warns it will affect every region of the Lower 48 states with winter weather, severe thunderstorms or extreme temperatures.
