Slow warming can be expected in the south, but temperatures will remain much below normal over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
A system in the northwest is expected to produce rain and mountain snow. And the NWS warns that a “cold front will cause a winter mix in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast with heavy rains that could trigger flash flooding in the Southeast.” But next week, temperatures are expected to reach the 60s and 70s.
Winter weather has resulted in the deaths of at least 38 people across the country since February 11.
Power outages for hundreds of thousands
Elsewhere in the country, about 400,000 other customers were without power Friday morning, including about 110,000 in Mississippi.
According to Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Executive Director Toby Baker, about 13 million Texans, nearly half of the state’s population, were under cooking advice. More than 700 water supply systems have been affected.
Ehren Williamson told CNN he counts himself among the lucky Texans after his power and water have been restored in the past 24 hours. But now Williamson has to worry about finding food to eat and drinking water as there is still some advice about cooking water.
“We went to multiple HE-Bs and searched for food for about six to eight hours on Tuesday,” he told CNN by phone from Pflugerville, Texas.
Today Williamson waited in line for an hour at an HEB. Once in the shop there was no water to be found.
“We had no warning,” he said. “We got the impression it wasn’t going to be bad. I didn’t even see the rolling blackout warnings. It just got dark.”
Had he been warned, he said he would have stocked up on food, water and a backup generator.
Other states also deal with snow and ice
Texas isn’t the only state to feel the rage of winter weather.
In Wayne, Pennsylvania, people are trying to clear the muddy snow before it freezes, causing dangerous conditions, according to CNN subsidiary 3CBS Philly. Wayne got four inches of snow during the storm. And now people are concerned that what remains after shoveling sidewalks and driveways will freeze and make the roads slippery.
“Well, it kind of sounded like someone blew some dynamite the way it came down and just hit it really hard,” resident Hope Woods told WXII 12. “We were brushing our teeth and I was like, ‘Okay, I hear a lots of commotion. “So we look out the window and there’s a giant tree smashed on all the cars.”
Yet despite the hardships across the country, there are stories of hope.
“Your regular hospital staff that had to be there, your maintenance staff, your guards, they’re essential too. Yes, they don’t treat patients directly, but the doctors and nurses need them there,” Poush told WPVI. And he encourages others to help in their community too.
Warmer temperatures ahead
In parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, more than 25 million people are still under a hard-stop warning. But by the end of the weekend, temperatures will slowly move out of freezing. And next week they are expected to be in the 60s and 70s.
In the Northeast, there are more than 60 million under winter weather warnings, but the vast majority of them will expire by the end of Friday. Ice buildup is expected in parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. And much of the Northeast will see at least one to three inches of snow by the end of the storm system.
The eastern parts of the Carolinas and Georgia are under surveillance of a flash flood and expect to receive about one to five inches of rainfall.
CNN’s Robert Shackelford contributed to this story.