A deadly winter storm continues to sweep through parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, resulting in dozens of car accidents and at least four deaths over the holiday weekend.

Four people died in Texas since the fierce weather began on Friday, including a 70-year-old woman who was swept off a bridge in Fort Worth, reports USA Today. Meanwhile, three others were killed after they got stuck in flooded cars.

In addition to sweeping commuters out of their cars, the freezing rain and flood waters broke a new record of rainfall in The Lone Star state. Rainfall totals reached more than 55.91 inches for the year, surpassing a 24-year record set at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Forecast

Accuweather meteorologist Paul Walker predicts that the rains will continue Saturday night, while another storm system from Mexico is expected to bring up to an inch-and-a-quarter of rainfall on Sunday.

"It's been a pretty wet year across Texas with the El Niño pattern," said Walker referring to a periodic warming of tropical Pacific Ocean water that affects weather around the world. "There's been lots of storms coming through in the Pacific and then they move across Mexico and into Texas."

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service issued ice storm warnings for the Texas panhandle and Oklahoma, due to frigid temperatures on Saturday.

Walker also warned that the icy conditions along highways will make it difficult for holiday travelers. So far, there have been about 100 crashes had been reported as of Friday evening, Trooper Cindy Barkley of the Texas Department of Public Safety office in Amarillo, told the Associated Press.

"It is really a weather event with a lot of different aspects," Oklahoma Department of Transportation spokesman Cody Boyd said Friday, according to NBC News. "We definitely understand that people travel to see family and friends (for Thanksgiving), and have to travel back home. If people have to travel ... plan plenty of extra travel time and check conditions before they head out."

However, the temperatures are expected to warm up by the end of the weekend as the storm system passes through.

"It looks like across the Lone Star State, they are seeing drying on Monday as the storm moves up into the central plains and toward the mid-west part of the country," Walker said.

Oklahoma, Missouri & Arkansas

In addition, forecasters have issued flash-flood watches and warnings from northeast Texas, eastern Oklahoma, southern Missouri and many parts of Arkansas. Plus, the weather service predicts around 5 to 7 inches of rain through Sunday in much of central and western Arkansas.