Heavy snow and bitter cold is expected to hit across much of the country through the weekend, but it's not shaping up to come close to the biggest snowstorms in history. Some may have memories of the infamous blizzard of 1978,

The massive winter storm set to begin tomorrow will stretch 2,000 miles across the country, from the Arizona-New Mexico border to upstate New York.

The fast-moving winter storms could dump foot or more of snow in portions of the Great Lakes and interior New England through this weekend.