For cross-country skiing enthusiasts, a winter like this one has been a blessing.

Two Belgian horses tread in the snow on a nice winter Tuesday, outside their stables along Frankstown Road near Summerhill, Cambria County.

It might not seem like it as another round of snow showers falls on the area Tuesday morning – but the region is in line for a significant warm-up over the coming week.

Power was restored to more homes and businesses Thursday in states hit by a deadly blast of winter that overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold this week. But the crisis was far from over in parts of the South, where many people still lacked safe drinking water.

Rick Olstein, of Lee Initiatives, sweeps snow away from the sidewalk on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at the Seifert Professional Building, 321 Main St., downtown Johnstown, as a pedestrian runs past.

A sprawling blast of winter weather across the U.S. is likely to blame for the deaths of two people in Texas, where an unusually snowy emergency Monday knocked out power for more than four million people, shut down grocery stores and air travel and closed schools ahead of frigid days still to come.

A storm moving northeast into the region early Monday is expected to dump a wintry mix through Tuesday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

Fresh snow covers the evergreen trees along Quemahoning Dam Road near the Quemahoning Dam in Somerset County on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021.