A potential winter storm late Saturday may bring significant snow impacts to Metro Atlanta and Central Georgia.

A potentially disruptive winter storm expected to move across the eastern United States later this week could bring snow to the Appalachians, the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, but forecasters warned on Monday that it was too early to know exactly how the complicated system would unfold.

Long range weather forecasts can be inaccurate due to the large pixel size of the models used, but finer resolution models can provide more accurate forecasts closer to the event.

A lurking La Niña pattern often heightens the risk for "rain-to-ice" transitions in Georgia. This is the exact scenario that caused widespread gridlock during the 2014 "SnowJam" and the back-to-back storms of January 2025.

The best chances for accumulating snow are currently over southeast Minnesota and Wisconsin, though the storm track is subject to change.