Another powerful storm system is expected to sweep across a wide swath of the United States, bringing heavy rain to Southern California, heavy snow to parts of the West and Midwest and more snow and freezing rain to the Northeast and New England.

Winter weather conditions this week weren't severe enough to knock out power for EWEB customers, the customer-owned utility provider said.

After a winter storm this weekend, the polar vortex will return, bringing subzero temperatures to around 80 million people from Montana to Maine and potentially as far south as northern Texas.

We are tracking the return of the polar vortex next week as a wavy jet stream brings a blast of Arctic air to the Great Lakes.

On the heels of successive winter storms that brought heavy snow and ice to a wide swath of the United States, another arctic blast tied to the polar vortex will send temperatures plummeting across the country early next week,