South could be frozen for days from furious storm that's coated several states with snow, ice

A winter storm that threatend to keep the South iced over until the end of the week was heading Tuesday for the storm-battered Northeast, leaving behind glassy and treacherous roads, snapped powerlines and stranded travelers.

Temperatures were expected to stay low enough to keep snow and ice on the ground a day for several more days in a southern states where many cities have only a handful of snow plows, if any. Snow ranging from several inches to more than a foot blanketed a swath from Louisiana to the Carolinas on Sunday and Monday.

Forecasters say LI may get more 10-15 inches

Even more snow could fall on Long Island than previously predicted, the National Weather Service said Tuesday morning.

In a forecast updated early Tuesday morning, the service said most of Long Island is now likely to get 10 to 15 inches. That's an increase of about three to four inches from the previous prediction released late Monday afternoon.

Big freeze blasts reserve numbers - UK

EXTREME weather conditions in December could change the face of the local bird population as we know it after whole colonies of water birds and barn owls have been decimated.

Pete Short, RSPB Humber Sites Manager, said: “We have had the coldest December since the 1860s and the birds are desperate.

“We have very few left at Blacktoft after losing 80 per cent of the beared tits; all the barn owls have starved to death; and the bitterns and marsh harriers are only just surviving. The moorhens have deserted the site,” he said.