A massive winter storm walloped the South and Midwest on Thursday with freezing rain and ice before barrelling towards the Northeast, where up to a foot and a half of snow is expected in some places.

The storm left up to a half-inch of ice on the road in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kentucky, creating dangerous travel conditions that will persist until the weather warms up Friday, forecasters said.

“It’s like driving on a hockey rink,” Chief Michael Miller of the Colleyville Police Department tweeted Thursday.

Winter storm warnings, winter weather advisories, winter storm watches and ice storm warnings are in effect across 23 states and cover more than 115 million people, according to Fox Weather meteorologist Mike Rawlins. 

“We’ve got cold Arctic air diving south out of Canada that’s meeting up with moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and all of that is combining together with an area of low pressure to bring this winter storm to really the eastern two-thirds of the country,” Rawlins told The Post. “It’s a fairly large storm with significant impacts in many places,” he said. 

Fort Worth Police reported a “major accident” caused by an 18-wheeler Thursday, and nearly 1,500 flights in and out of the Dallas area were canceled — accounting for about 75 percent of the total number of cancellations reported across the US, according to FlightAware. 

Treacherous conditions are expected from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area all the way into southern Missouri, where travel is “highly discouraged,” the meteorologist explained. 

“We’re seeing that from a lot of highway patrol and local police departments, urging people to just stay home and stay off the roads because they’re responding to numerous slide-offs and accidents because of the icing,” he said. 

Forecasters had predicted possible snow in the Big Apple late Thursday into Friday, but Accuweather meteorologists said the city had a low chance of precipitation Thursday evening, and would likely see rain with a high of 39 degrees on Friday.