That storm could dump snow – at least 6 inches (15 centimeters) with white-out conditions – in the Carolinas, northern Georgia, and southern Virginia. Chances of the storm veering away from the East Coast entirely had diminished Wednesday morning, but hadn't disappeared altogether, Mullinax said. If the storm does come ashore, those winds and extra snow could cause massive snow drifts big enough to bury cars, Maue said. And this new weekend storm "is going to take that cold and it's going to spill right down the heart of the Florida peninsula," Pydynowski said. Meteorologists see the East stuck in a pattern of bitter cold and snowstorms due to plunging Arctic air and warm water.