Say it ain't snow! Winter storm forecast this weekend

A winter storm is set to deliver snow from the Midwest to the East Coast through Monday, less than a week after the so-called Blizzard of 2015 dumped more than 2 feet of snow across New England.

Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York City and Boston are all in the path of the storm. Those cities could see 6 to 12 inches of snow, according to AccuWeather.

"Close to 100 million people live within the swath forecast to be hit with accumulating snow or enough wintry mix to make for slippery roads from Saturday evening into Monday," AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.

The system comes on the heels of a blizzard early this week that dumped 34.5 inches on Worcester, Mass., the city's largest ever. The 24.6 inches measured in Boston made it the city's biggest January storm on record.

For this weekend's storm, lighter amounts of snow and/or a wintry mix is possible in cities such as Louisville, Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore. Friday, the system brought accumulating snow to the higher elevations of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. It is forecast to dump a wintry mix across the central Plains on Saturday.

The storm has been named Winter Storm Linus by the Weather Channel (good grief).

While the Northern tier deals with snow, the South will see periods of rain Saturday, Sunday and Monday. A few thunderstorms may develop near the Gulf Coast and along the southern Atlantic Seaboard.

After the storm rolls away Monday, bitterly cold air will be left in its wake. High temperatures for Groundhog Day will be only in the single digits, teens and 20s from the northern Plains to the Ohio Valley, Northeast and New England, according to the Weather Channel. New York City could struggle to reach 0 degrees by Tuesday morning, said meteorologist Ryan Maue of Weather Bell.

The colder-than-average temperatures are expected to persist into the second week of February for most areas east of the Mississippi River, Weather Channel meteorologist Jon Erdman said.

In Phoenix, after a couple of soggy days Friday and Saturday, temperatures will rebound to the upper 60s, and sunshine will fill the skies for Super Bowl Sunday, AccuWeather predicts. Those are ideal conditions for leaving the stadium's retractable roof open, which the NFL said it will do unless there is inclement weather.