North Texas saw snow and sleet starting Thursday, and with that came power outages. Oncor’s outage tracking website states its teams and resources are monitoring weather conditions and are ready to respond to outages.

An area stretching from Texas to Tennessee braced Wednesday for the possible arrival of freezing rain and snow even as some other parts of the U.S. hit by the plunging polar vortex this week began to shake off its icy effects.

FOX Weather's Brandy Campbell reports from Frisco, Texas, where snow has started covering the ground as a winter storm moves across the southern U.S.

Amid the coldest air of the season, a map showed the expansive footprint of the storm that will bring disruptive weather to nearly 1,400 miles in the South through the weekend.