The National Weather Service is asking folks to take proper cold weather precautions and protect the four P’s: People, pets, pipes and plants.

The coldest temperatures of the season will blow through North Texas in the coming days. A powerful arctic blast partly tied to the polar vortex will bring frigid, bone-chilling weather to Dallas-Fort Worth through at least midweek next week.

The arctic cold front pushing through North Texas this weekend will make temperatures frigidly cold and maybe create snow flurries.

The winter storm warning in effect for North Texas has been downgraded to a winter weather advisory, according to the National Weather Service Fort Worth. Temperatures in the Fort Worth area remain around freezing, and the precipitation could cause a small amount of additional ice to accumulate bridges and overpasses.

Drivers in North Texas should be extremely careful Friday morning after the region was blasted with wintry precipitation and below-freezing temperatures overnight, when the region is expected to face the worst travel impacts,

Temperatures in the Metroplex will drop this weekend while light flurries are expected Jan. 20-21, said National Weather Service Meteorologist Monique Sellers. What you need to kn

Road conditions are expected to improve in the afternoon before Friday's Cotton Bowl. Here are the latest weather updates from Dallas-Fort Worth:

Another blast of winter weather is expected in parts of the U.S. in the coming days, including bone-chilling wind in the Northern Plains and unusual snow and ice in the Gulf Coast area.

In Denton, two shelters will be open to anyone seeking daytime or overnight shelter and looking to get warm: The Salvation Army Denton, located at 1508 E. McKinney St. and Denton Community Shelter operated by Our Daily Bread, located at 909 N. Loop 288.

Temperatures will plummet Saturday in North Texas as an arctic cold front pushes through, days ahead of when light snow is expected. There will be multiple days of frigid, dangerously cold weather as morning wind chills will be in the single digits and teens,