Forecast models showing a major snowstorm for the New York City area this weekend have been making the rounds on social media. But will it happen?

A major, disruptive winter storm was sweeping across the central U.S. on Sunday, forecasters said, bringing with it a dreaded combination of snow, ice and plunging temperatures. The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings from Kansas and Missouri — where blizzard conditions are expected — to New Jersey.

As a deep winter chill begins to take over the northern half of the country, blizzard warnings were issued in three states while a new major winter storm moves across the nation. Around 60 million Americans from the Dakotas to Delaware were under winter weather alerts as of Sunday morning,