The weather forecast shows a major winter storm could hit Boston this weekend with heavy snow.

A major winter storm is set to spread heavy snow and damaging ice across a large portion of the United States over the coming days. Dangerously cold temperatures will only worsen the storm and increase its danger.

The latest forecasts spare Florida from any snow or sleet but "bitterly cold temperatures" are coming behind the front.

Half the U.S. population will likely see some effect from the sprawling storm that will move across the country this weekend, meteorologists said.

Travel disruptions, power outages and frigid temperatures ‌are ​expected to affect 150 million Americans on Friday ‌and through the weekend as a massive storm clobbers the U.S. with heavy snow and freezing rain from ​the Central Plains to the East Coast,

From icy conditions to bitterly cold temperatures, more than 200 million Americans are bracing for what is set to be one of the biggest winter storms in years.