Rob Carolin

That's Bloomberg meteorologist Rob Carroll.

We have a big force going toward Iran.

I'd rather not see anything happen, but we're watching them very closely.

Right now we're ready for 36 straight hours of snowfall.

A major winter storm, which is just now developing over the southwestern part of the nation, is going to produce wintry weather from eastern New Mexico and much of Texas up across parts of the Tennessee and Ohio River Valleys with some significant icing possible from northeastern Louisiana and southeastern Arkansas across northern Mississippi into parts of Tennessee.

There's also the potential for some significant icing over parts of Georgia.

We'll see snow north of the track and amounts over a foot in many locations.

across parts of southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, through parts of Indiana and Ohio.

And we'll also find heavy snowfall across parts of the northern mid-Atlantic states into the northeast by late in the weekend.

Many of the major cities in the eastern United States will see snow either late Saturday or Sunday, and it should be ending either Sunday night or Monday.

We could see as much as a foot around the Washington area and Baltimore.

New York City also could see a foot and more than a foot as possible around the Boston area.

I'm Rob Carolin, Bloomberg Radio.

Bloomberg meteorologist Rob Carolin is tracking that.

That storm system will track through the Tennessee River Valley during Saturday night, early Sunday morning, through the mid-Atlantic states on Sunday, and then off the coast of either the DeMarva or the

southern New Jersey by Sunday night, early Monday, and then south of New England Monday.

There are over 30 states that are going to be impacted by this storm from eastern New Mexico into the southern Ohio River Valley.

Southern New England imparts the northeast by the time it's winding down Monday afternoon.

A significant winter storm will be developing during the day on Friday over Texas and the southern plains and then spending the weekend tracking into the east central part of the country.

It's going to be moving along a boundary of very, very cold air and it's going to be bringing snow and ice to areas of the country that ordinarily don't see it.