NEW YORK, NY (ABC) -- A massive winter storm is moving up the East Coast, threatening to bring up to 2 feet of snow to Washington, D.C., and Baltimore and pound the rest of the region with plenty of winter weather and headaches.
On the edge of the storm, freezing rain will create dangerous and slow-going driving conditions. At the heart, the blizzard -like conditions will make travel virtually impossible.
"I don't know if it's going to go down in the record books but it will be very significant," said Bruce Terry, lead forecaster at the National Weather Service in Camp Spring, Md. "Travel tonight and tomorrow will be absolutely treacherous."
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In the hardest-hit areas around Washington and Baltimore, Terry said the roads simply "will be impassable."
In Baltimore, weather forecasters are watching to see if the record snowfall of 28.2 inches set over Feb. 16-18, 2003 will be shattered.
In Virginia, Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency and warned residents to prepare emergency kits, stay off roads and prepare for power outages.
"It's certainly not unusual, we're still in the beginning of February. We're still kind of in the heart of winter," Terry said. "The pattern we are in this year with an El Nino is a lot of storms coming across the southern region."
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