Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. A​t least 16 people are dead after a winter storm packing severe weather struck the South and moved through the East over the weekend.

As dangerous winter weather is on the way and threatening much of the country, there were also deadly storms that hit Kentucky tragically taking 11 lives.

At least 10 dead in Kentucky after severe flooding sweeps the South - Parts of Kentucky and Tennessee received up to 7 inches of rain during the weekend storms, and at least 10 people have died in the