Over the past few days, a blast of arctic air has whipped across the Southeast, bringing with it freezing temperatures and dangerously low wind chills. The East Tennessee region saw single-digit temperatures and sub-zero wind chills beginning the night of Jan. 19, according to the National Weather Service.

Though it may have felt like a lot of snow fell on Friday, Jan. 10, it did not come close to breaking any Knoxville records.

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Morristown has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for portions of southwest North Carolina, east Tennessee, and southwest Virginia, as a mix of light rain and snow is expected to affect the region tonight into early Monday.

The National Weather Service has issued a cold weather advisory for all of Middle Tennessee. Here's what to know about the dangerously cold temperatures.

A sprawling winter storm that is pushing slowly across the United States will bring a risk of severe weather and excessive rainfall to a large part of the south-central United States from Wednesday into Friday. Isolated thunderstorms, flooding rains and damaging winds are all possible in an area between East Texas and western Kentucky.

Due to the continued low temperatures, many schools around East Tennessee are closed or delayed on Wednesday, Jan 22. The temperatures are expected to be "dangerously cold" and well below 20 degrees across East Tennessee on Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service. A cold weather advisory is in effect through 10 a.m.

Some of that snow was already on the ground when an arctic air brought record-setting cold to the mountains along the Tennessee-North Carolina state line. The National Weather Service warned night time temperatures would fall below zero in many areas, and wind chills of minus 20 degrees were possible.

As Helene's destructive wrath descended on the Southeast, some residents say they never got the warnings they needed to take action.

Amid below-freezing temperatures, preliminary results show TVA hit an all-time power demand record Wednesday morning of 35,319 megawatts — the highest in its 91-year history.

A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow.

A powerful winter storm, fueled by a whirling mass of Arctic air, brought much of the Sun Belt to a standstill and plunged temperatures into the teens. Warmer temperatures weren’t expected until the weekend.

A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across the southern United States on Wednesday, breaking snow records and treating the region to unaccustomed perils and wintertime joy.