Cold Weather

Forecasters say brisk winds and a chance of showers will continue ahead of a cooler weekend and a dry Halloween.

The Tornado Watch includes Jacksonville, Lake City, Gainesville, Ocala, Cedar Key, The Villages, Tampa, Lakeland, Sarasota and Fort Myers.

The strong cold front could produce damaging winds, but embedded tornadoes and waterspouts cannot be ruled out.

Temperatures are expected to be 10-12 degrees cooler across a large portion of Florida thanks to a noticeable fall front.

Highs on Thursday could be up to 25 degrees colder from the I-4 corridor to the north.

Lingering effects of the storm are expected to cause dangerous conditions through early Monday as residents dig out from under the weekend's record-breaking levels of snow.

More severe weather is ahead for many of the same areas already hit hardest by the historic winter weather, with more than 100 million people in the path of the latest storms.

About 7 million people in Texas, including residents of Houston, Arlington, Fort Worth, Tyler and San Antonio need to boil their water to ensure it's safe for cooking and drinking.

Nearly 3 million Texas electricity customers are enduring extreme cold and some cities say tap water must be boiled. One utility says its repair crews have been harassed by angry residents.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott deployed the Texas National Guard to move people without heat and power into shelters.

Researchers in Antarctica have found life flourishing in some of the most inhospitable conditions on Earth.

More than 150 million are under warnings and advisories stretching from the South and Northwest and into the Northeast. The entire state of Texas was under winter advisories on Sunday.