The bread, milk and eggs could be flying off the shelves at Market Basket this weekend. Local meteorologists are predicting “plowable snowfall” from Sunday night into Monday morning, as a nor’easter is expected to dump 3 to 6 inches of snow across the region.

We've got some accumulating snow to kick things off. That will be followed by the coldest airmass of the winter season thus far. Finally, in the longer range, it appears that an active/stormy pattern is going to unfold over the next few weeks across the eastern United States.

Massachusetts could see several inches of snow this weekend from a weather system passing over the region on Sunday night, according to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service's Boston office.