A polar vortex is slated to sweep most of the continental United States bringing a hazardous freeze to millions of Americans from the Deep South to the Northeast Saturday going into next week.

ATLANTA — Showers on Saturday morning have moved out of metro Atlanta and north Georgia and are making way for an arctic blast. Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Eboni Deon says the rest of Saturday will be mostly cloudy with a few isolated showers into the evening.

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A series of cold fronts the last few weeks has kept Florida downright chilly, as another winter storm starts to take aim this weekend

First Alert Weather Day | Saturday A cold front will approach the area Saturday bringing widespread rain to north Georgia. Severe weather/winter weather not expected, but widespread rain totals of about an inch or so is expected.

Here in the lower Great Lakes Region, we are well-equipped to handle blasts of cold and snow. It’s when the polar vortex sends arctic air into areas that don’t usually receive it that it can become dangerous.

State Climatologist Jay Grymes said there could be lows of 20 degrees across the state between Monday and Wednesday and the National Weather Service (NWS) has said Baton Rouge could see its first snowfall in seven years. Newsweek has contacted the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for comment.

Nearly 300M Americans face an arctic blast with sub-zero wind chills, heavy snow, and record-low temperatures ahead

A rare winter storm is expected to bring heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain to Florida, Texas and other parts of the South next week. While some uncertainty remains over exactly how much snow will fall,

A major cold blast is in store for millions of Americans as a lobe of a polar vortex will bring brutally cold temperatures to nearly every American east of the Rockies.