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By Aya Elamroussi and Joe Sutton, CNN A prescribed fire in Central Texas “spread beyond the intended fire boundaries” Tuesday and swelled to hundreds of acres, forcing some residents to evacuate as crews battled the blaze overnight, local officials said. The Rolling Pines Fire in Bastrop County was sparked Tuesday morning and grew to 500

By Alanne Orjoux and Holly Yan, CNN A brutal winter storm walloping much of the Southeast has brought a trio of rare sights: freezing rain, snow and ice. And the Northeast is up next. Snow has fallen as far south as Florida, with the National Weather Service in Mobile, Alabama, tweeting a Pensacola, Florida, resident’s

By Jason Hanna, Hannah Gard and Alanne Orjoux, CNN A massive storm system dumping snow on the central US is expected to wallop much of the country’s eastern third with snow and freezing rain this weekend, and could cause a crippling ice event in parts of Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas by Sunday. Nearly 74

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Over 65 million people are under winter weather alerts due to a dangerous system making its way from the Central US to the South and then the Northeast in the next three days. A low-pressure system currently in the Central Plains begins to dive into the lower Mississippi Valley region

By Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN If you live in the heart of the South, you might be dreaming of a rare snowy weekend. Don’t get the snow sleds out quite yet. Yes, a winter storm could bring snow to Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and into the Northeast beginning over the

By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist It was warmer just after midnight Tuesday morning than it will be all day long in the Northeast. Since then, the temperature has been dropping, and it will stay dangerously cold all day in the region, leaving major cities like New York and Boston with the most frigid daytime air