A significant winter storm is impacting the Midwest and Northeast, delivering a messy combination of heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain. This widespread mixed precipitation is expected to clear out of New England by Thursday evening,

This latest system will hit us with 1-3 inches of snow before a switchover to sleet and rain across parts of Mass., Rhode Island.

ARLINGTON, Va. − A wall of snow, ice and rain was sweeping across the Northeast on Thursday, the first in a series of storms forecast to wallop much of the nation's northern tier over the next several days.