(Danville, Va.) — While Southside Virginia was spared the mixed precipitation, high winds and bitterly cold temperatures are in the forecast, courtesy of a major winter storm that blanketed much of the Midwest with snow earlier in the weekend. Much of Virginia — including Danville — is under a Wind Chill Advisory through noon Monday, with dangerous wind chills as low as zero. Winds gusts up to 45 mph are possible.

The system is barreling toward New England, where it is expected to wreak transportation havoc ranging from slick and clogged roads to hundreds of cancelled airline flights.

The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings or advisories for part or all of at least 15 states Sunday stretching from southeast Missouri to the northern tip of Maine.

The storm was caused by the clash of an Arctic high pressure system with a low pressure system coming through the Ohio Valley, said NWS Baltimore-Washington, D.C. meteorologist Dan Hofmann.