map from the national weather service. it puts a threat index for the entire eastern seaboard and we focus in on massachusetts and rhode island. look at the shading of purple including the boston metropolitan and focus your attention on the legend on the top portion of the scereen. they expect extreme winter impacts from this particular nor'easter and don't use that word lightly. they talk about snowfall totals per hour from three to four inches per hour. you can imagine how quickly that will stack up. factor in hurricane force wind gusts and got yourself a concerning situation. a recipe for disaster. this storm is still in its infant in many respects. off the coastline of virginia and north carolina but it's taking advantage of the warm gulf stream waters, temperatures are abnormally warm there. so that means more moisture to pick up with this low deepening low pressure system and that will produce all snow.