The primary icing event remains on track for late Saturday afternoon through Saturday night. During this time, widespread freezing rain, with a few embedded pockets of sleet, is expected to move in and continue through late evening and overnight, ending early Sunday morning.

From nearly invisible black ice to freezing rain and sleet, here's how common winter weather hazards form, why they're so dangerous.

Yes, it can happen. In fact, there are a whole litany of items that you should not leave in your car during cold temperatures like the ones expected across New England this week. In Rhode Island, temperatures are expected to drop down to 13 degrees on Saturday with a real feel on 5 degrees in Providence, according to AccuWeather.

The National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Corpus Christi and the surrounding area. A trace of freezing rain is likely with more to the north.

The U.S. National Weather Service warned of an unusually expansive and long-duration winter storm that will bring widespread, heavy ice accumulation in the southeast U.S. and cited "crippling to locally catastrophic impacts.