Tornado risks, snowstorms expected as weather systems push east

Christmas Day started with rain and thunderstorms, producing lightning and small hail. By midday the rain changed to snow, which fell sideways in many cases due to the strong winds.

Snow and heavy winds have made conditions dangerous on area roads.

Weather Channel meteorologist Guy Walton said a weather pattern with the potential to become winter storm Freyr is poised to enter the West Coast on Wednesday and move through the Rockies on Thursday. It could then head for the lower Mississippi

Snow and heavy winds have made conditions dangerous on area roads.

A Christmas storm that unleashed heavy snow and deadly winds on the nation's midsection set its sights on the eastern half of the country Wednesday, creating a post-holiday travel nightmare with hundreds of planes