Winter US storm live: Heavy snow and travel disruption hits US with at least six people dead

The death toll from the severe winter conditions impacting parts of the US has risen to at least five people.

A man was found dead on Monday morning outside of a bus stop in the Houston, Texas area “due to cold weather”, a spokesperson for the city’s metro system confirmed to the BBC.

“The body was found directly in front of a bus shelter,” Lester Gretsch, the Harris County Metropolitan Transit Authority’s director of media relations, said.

This latest tragic death adds to the fatalities believed to be caused by Winter Storm Blair, which has brought inches of snow and sub-freezing temperatures to much of the US.

Earlier, we reported that there was at least one fatality in Missouri as the storm passed through. The state’s highway patrol said a pedestrian was killed after a lorry, which had stopped to let a passenger out, began to slide on the roadway.

Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to calls for over 350 crashes and more than 1,000 stranded motorists as the winter storm barreled through.

Two people have died in a car crash in Kansas due to adverse weather, as well as a person in Virginia.

Police say a 32-year-old man died about midnight in Wakefield, Virginia, after his truck skidded off the road and hit a tree. Officials say he was driving too fast for roadway conditions and not wearing a seatbelt, and alcohol may have been a factor.