The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for the Sacramento area until Sunday at 4 p.m., with wind gusts up to 55 mph and a 70% chance of rain, and the Placerville area expecting 4 to six inches of snow.

A pair of quick-moving weather systems will sweep through the Great Lakes, New England and the Northeast. Travel could become challenging at times. Let's break it down.

Boston and the rest of New England have been dealing with well below-average temperatures, in some cases falling 20 degrees, as an expansive mass of Arctic air spreads across the eastern half of the United States. This cold surge is making our region this week feel colder than Anchorage, Alaska, which is topping out at 36 degrees.

The coldest temperature ever recorded was Feb. 9, 1934, when it fell to 17 degrees below zero, according to National Weather Service records, which go back to 1904. More: How much snow did Rhode Island get? See snowfall totals for Providence, Newport, Warwick

A storm bringing snow Sunday will be followed by an arctic outbreak dropping temperatures into the 'single digits.'

What's likely to be the coldest weather of the season will roll into Southern New England early next week. The National Weather Service is forecasting overnight low temperatures Monday and Tuesday "mainly in the single digits" with some "below zero ...

A coastal storm system approaching New England Sunday afternoon is forecast to drop 3 to 6 inches of snow across the Boston area through early Monday, with higher accumulations of around 4 to 8 inches expected the farther inland you go. A few isolated areas, especially from Springfield to the Berkshires, could see nearly a foot stack up.

The heaviest snow will fall in the higher terrain of New England and the Appalachians. Some 5-10 inches of snow is possible in those areas. The bigger cities along Interstate 95 are more likely to see 2-6 inches with heavier totals to the north and west of downtown in each of the cities from DC to Boston.

After a week of biting cold temperatures and strong winds, this weekend will bring a light covering of snow across New England, including New Hampshire. This weekend's snowfall will be calm, bringing showers with little to no accumulation across the state on both Thursday night and Saturday into Sunday.

“It looks like it’s going to be a light system, but some of the snow may occur during Wednesday’s morning commute,” said Francis Tarasiewicz, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service.

Forecasters expect frigid overnight temperatures to continue in the coming days, with daytime temperatures not resembling the past week's highs in the teens.

The storm brought 100 mile-per-hour winds to the island and also battered Scotland and northern England. Britain’s weather office issued a red warning, its highest level of alert.