Maps show where the next blast of Arctic air and a potential winter storm are expected to travel this weekend, according to the latest forecast models.

Snow, damaging winds and dangerous coastal flooding are expected to impact parts of the southern Appalachians, the Carolinas and southern Virginia this weekend as a powerful winter storm rapidly intensifies off the Southeast coast.

In the latest bout of winter weather, a bomb cyclone could bring blizzard conditions to the Carolinas while freezing temperatures reach all the way to Florida

A blast of arctic air is expected to sweep across the southeastern United States this weekend, unleashing hazardous blizzard conditions before it sweeps over the Atlantic Ocean and explodes into a coastal cyclone,

The frigid air mass is in place as the Storm Watch 9 team tracks a coastal storm that will develop this weekend. At this point, it looks as if that storm is tracking far offshore, though there could be some minor coastal impacts.

Nokaen was a tropical storm in the Philippine Sea Saturday evening Philippine Time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest advisory.