Snow, ice cancel 200 flights in Dallas

DALLAS, March 6 (UPI) -- Snow and sleet enveloped northern Texas Thursday, forcing cancellation of more than 200 flights at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

The storm was a harbinger of a storm that could dump up to six inches of snow in the area, The Dallas News reported.

Elsewhere, a powerful storm system is expected to inflict a two-pronged attack on the East by Saturday, AccuWeather.com reported. By Saturday, blizzard conditions were expected to spread from Ohio to southern Ontario, while severe weather develops along the mid-Atlantic coast.

The system is a carbon copy of last week's storm that moved across the Eastern United States. The cold side will bring a wintry mix from Dallas to Canada, while the warm side of the system will spread rain across the Deep South and up the east coast.

The Texas storm -- which could dump 6-12 inches of snow in southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Arkansas -- is complicated, AccuWeather.com's Henry Margusity said.

"Areas that are going to get hit hard by the storm may start off getting a little rain but the area will eventually end up with an all-out blizzard with high winds, temperatures falling into the low 20s and heavy snow," Margusity said.