snow forecast

By EMILIE MEGNIEN, SEAN MURPHY and JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- Bread was flying off the shelves, salt was being loaded into trucks and utility workers were nervously watching forecasts Thursday as a huge winter storm is barreling toward the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. The massive storm system is expected to bring a crippling ice storm from Texas through parts of the South, potentially around a foot (30 centimeters) of snow from Oklahoma through Washington, D.C.; New York and Boston and then a final punch of bitterly cold air that could drop wind chills to mius-50 de

After a run of unseasonably warm days in late December and early January, Arkansas is expected to get walloped with a monster of a winter storm that will more than make up for the reprieve. The weather system is expected to bring heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain to the state beginning Friday and lasting through early Sunday. Temperatures could plunge to the single digits. Almost all of Arkansas is now under a winter storm watch, according to the National Weather Service. Much of the rest of the central U.S. will also be hit.