Forecasts anticipate that an ice storm will hit the Midwest and Northeast by mid-week, with at least six states expecting a high chance of impacts. Widespread freezing rain is expected to bring impacts from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic beginning on Wednesday.

A winter storm is forecast to spread ice and snow across portions of the central and eastern U.S. today, bringing widespread travel troubles and also the threat of power outages.

Starting with an ice and snow storm Thursday, a series of winter systems is forecast to slam parts of the Midwest, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic with dangerous travel conditions through the middle of next week,

Treacherous travel is expected throughout much of the Northeast as a rare ice storm nears. It will arrive overnight Wednesday, Feb. 5 and start out with widespread snow, before transitioning to freezing rain in the early morning hours of Thursday,