New England is gearing up for a messy, long-duration snowstorm this weekend that will bring plowable snow of up to 6 inches throughout parts of Massachusetts and nearly a foot in New Hampshire and Vermont.

While forecasters were not yet able to pinpoint just how much snow New Yorkers will see, Weather Service Meteorologist Tony Ansuini said to expect "plowable amounts" - at least several inches of snow - this weekend as "quite a messy storm system approaches.

Even as a lake effect snowstorm is closing highways today in Upstate New York, another storm system is barreling toward the region this weekend. The weekend “will feature very active winter weather as a large,