Good morning.

I'm Cedric and This is your EM Morning Brief for Thursday, January 29, 2026 A winter storm organizes for the Southern Appalachians, Carolinas and southern Mid Atlantic Friday through Sunday with the Weather Prediction center highlighting heavy snow potential and dangerous cold on the storm's backside.

The Winter Storm Severity Index shows increasing moderate impacts across parts of the Southeast and Mid Atlantic as timing firms up today for maritime interests.

The National Hurricane center reports no active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific separately for Cyber readiness.

No new CISA emergency directives today.

The Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog's most recent additions were posted Jan. 27.

Federal, state, local, tribal and territorial partners should verify remediation status per those entries.

Lets run through the states Georgia NWS Atlanta posts winter storm watches for parts of northeast and east central Georgia from Friday evening through Sunday morning.

Forecasters flag accumulating snow with slippery roads in the watch area and a prolonged freeze risk statewide this weekend.

FEMA says federal partners are supporting Louisiana's state led response to recent severe winter weather staging generators, meals, water, cots, blankets and medical supplies.

Winter storm watches are posted across large portions of central and eastern North Carolina Friday night through Sunday.

NWS Raleigh notes increasing confidence in significant snowfall along with single digit to sub zero wind chills by Saturday night.

North Dakota NWS Bismarck's Winter Briefing highlights wind chill warnings and related hazards with links to NDOT travel maps, webcams and livestock cold stress guidance.

South Carolina Winter storm watches extend across the upstate and portions of northeast South Carolina Friday into Sunday.

NWS Greenville Spartanburg highlights snow potential and dangerous wind chills.

NWS Morristown maintains winter storm watches for parts of East Tennessee from Saturday afternoon into early Sunday, citing accumulating snow and dangerous wind chills Saturday night.

Elsewhere, prolonged sub freezing periods are possible.

Winter storm watches cover central and south central Virginia from Friday evening through Sunday.

NWS Wakefield's briefing page emphasizes heavy snow potential and a sharp cold shot with single digit or sub zero wind chills Saturday night.

West Virginia winter storm watch includes McDowell county from Friday afternoon into Saturday night per NWS Morristown's WWA text.

NWS Charleston WV also flags weekend snow potential and dangerous wind chills.

All other states have no significant updates in the last 24 hours.

That's the EMN morning brief.

Stay safe.