A storm system that brought heavy snow and strong winds to the Great Plains and the Midwest was moving toward the Northeast on Sunday, potentially complicating travel, forecasters said.

Through Monday and into Tuesday, the storm could bring four to eight inches of snow to parts of New England as well as freezing rain to areas of Vermont, New Hampshire, Eastern New York and Western Massachusetts, Andrew Orrison, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center, said.

“It could be rather damaging for some of the areas up through there where you can have down trees, power lines, and as a result, power outages to a number of people,” he said on Sunday.

Major cities in the Northeast are expected to only see rain, but Boston could get snow and freezing rain, Mr. Orrison said.