Ari Sarsalari

This one's actually going to be a big deal for parts of the Carolinas, Virginia.

Not such a big deal from like D.C.

up through Philadelphia, New York, and then possibly a big deal for Cape Cod.

Historic snow possible, especially eastern North Carolina.

We're calling it a nor'easter.

We're going to have 50-plus mile-per-hour winds along with some really heavy snow, about 5 to 8 inches from Norfolk down to Raleigh, Charlotte, and then, of course, heavier totals as you get farther toward the east.

50 to 60 mile-per-hour gusts, maybe even higher than that.

Close miss for the I-95 corridor between Philadelphia and New York.

A couple of forecast models are trying to paint in some light snow.

Cape Cod, you're going to get some wind, and there could be enough snow around that it could drop the visibility a little bit, but kind of a close call miss, I would say.

And a big concern for the south is freezing rain.

North Mississippi, we're thinking over an inch of ice.

So that's going to be widespread power outages that are probably going to last a long time.

One of the bigger ice storms that we've seen in a while.

We've also got some ice that's in the forecast from Atlanta up through Charlotte.

Raleigh, Richmond, Roanoke, et cetera, that's going to be enough to cause a lot of power outages as well.

Probably not quite as bad as our friends farther off toward the southwest there.

Fox weather's Ari Sarsalari.

Saturday is going to be the worst in the central part of the U.S.

over into the Ohio Valley.