The National Weather Service has posted a winter storm watch for the entire state west of the Chesapeake Bay, signaling the potential in "some places" for at least 5 inches of snow and sleet or a quarter-inch of ice. Choose two from column A, one from column B, depending on where you live and where the storm goes. My bet is on an ice storm, with stiff winds, leading to plenty of power outages.

The watch is posted from Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening. This will be a powerful nor'easter, they say. Upstate New York will get plenty of snow, as will inland New England. But the details of what falls on the I-95 corridor in Maryland and when remain unpredictable. It all hinges on the track of a storm that is still forming over the Southwest. A little to the north and we get a lot of slop and rain. A little more to the south, and we get snow.

Either way we can use the moisture.

Here's AccuWeather's take on it. And AccuWeather's Henry Margusity. And here is Henry's snow map. Looks like ice to me.