Washington may receive up to two feet of snow from Friday storm - A storm which is currently moving through the Rocky Mountains is scheduled to hit the East Coast on Friday and it may drop 1 to 2 feet (30 to 60 centimeters) of snow on Washington and covering the area from the mid-Atlantic to New York City and southern New England.

The National Weather Service said a blizzard watch goes into effect Friday afternoon into Saturday for parts of Virginia and Maryland, including Washington and Baltimore. Experts said that strong winds and heavy snow could affect the traffic and create life-threatening conditions.

"One to two feet is probably a good bet at this point, with locally higher amounts," said Rick Otto, a meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. "The locations of Boston and New York are kind of in the iffy section of the snowfall."

A blizzard may also end a snow drought which has affected many largest cities of the East Coast. According to the weather service, New York has only received 0.4 inch, or 8.6 inches fewer than normal, while Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore are all inches behind an average season and Boston is more than a foot below the 30-year average.

Otto remarked that it was not easy to forecast the weather for the area north of Philadelphia because there's expected to be a fine line between where snow falls and it doesn't. For example: according to one model, Boston will not receive snowfall at all, while another shows the city getting 2 to 4 inches. In New York, the northern areas of the city will probably get less, while Staten Island could get as much as a foot, he said. We're still a couple of days out, and I guarantee the models will waver and shift," Otto said.

It is highly unlikely that Washington and Baltimore would escape a heavy snowfall. "The worst of it is probably going to be in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore," said Gary Best, a meteorologist at Hometown Forecast Services Inc. in Nashua, New Hampshire. "The worst of the storm will be Friday night into Saturday morning there."