Virginia/Maryland Winter Storm thread

[Karebear]

Snow is coming down pretty good now here in Columbia. Sticking to grass and trees but not the streets yet. Temps keep falling also. This is according to my weather bug.

[angelwing]

Snowing hee in Wrightstown NJ

[RestonVA]

I cannot believe this. There is hardly anything coming out of the sky in Northern Virginia. There is just the finest dusting on the grass and nothing at all on the roads, they are just wet. We are screwed here now with the wet roads, now no snow will stick to them at all today. Wet roads two storms in a row, great. I know you guys don't want to hear it, but NO VA has busted, big time. We might end up with a couple inches on the grass, but that's it.

[FlyPC12]

I cannot believe this. There is hardly anything coming out of the sky in Northern Virginia. There is just the finest dusting on the grass and nothing at all on the roads, they are just wet. We are screwed here now with the wet roads, now no snow will stick to them at all today. Wet roads two storms in a row, great. I know you guys don't want to hear it, but NO VA has busted, big time. We might end up with a couple inches on the grass, but that's it.

These past winters have been very disappointing. We have two inches in CHO and I expect no more than 2 more even though NWS signed off on 10+ last night. It seems to me that there is substantial dry air working in from the south (you can see on the radar loop). The vort in the midwest is going to rotate west of the mountains and collapse when the dry air wraps in. I think the interior mid Atlantic and NE will be a bust as well.

[RestonVA]

well the intensity has finally picked up but nothing at all is going to stick to the roads.

[dwmcmillen]

this is unreal. once again...nothing. how can this happen over and over again.

[USCG_Hurricane_Watcher]

NWS' Heavy Snow Warning now a Winter Storm Warning, also accumulation figures dropped from 1" to 3" to just 1" to 2"...

Weather Channel still saying 8" to 12" , local mets are saying 4" to 7"...

[asmithmd1]

Mybe these robins sitting in a tree in my back yard know more than we do. No big storm, Spring is here

[Fodie77]

Someone please explain this to me. The NWS has just RAISED the snowfall totals for the Shenandoah Valley from 6 to 10" to 8 to 12". Why would they do this considering the storm has almost passed and I only have around 2in. on grassy areas only here in Winchester?

[Brent]

Hmmmm... well it says 1-3 inches possible this afternoon, 4 to 8 tonight, and less than an inch tomorrow.

Maybe there will be some snow from the mountains(like lake effect)

[Fodie77]

Hmmmm... well it says 1-3 inches possible this afternoon, 4 to 8 tonight, and less than an inch tomorrow.

Maybe there will be some snow from the mountains(like lake effect)

That's possible, or maybe the NWS in on drugs.

[Lowpressure]

Just drove down from Manassas to ome in Fredericksburg. Heavy snow upon leaving Manassas with about 2 inches on the ground and the roads getting slushy and white. Trip down I-95 was a mixed bag from heavy sleet to heavy snow to a mix of both. Currently in Fredericksburg, moderate sleet and 31.5 degrees. We have 1-2 inches on the ground, hard to tell sleet doing it's thing to snow totals, but getting icy.

[Fodie77]

I'm actually quite impressed with the level of wrap around moisture we're receiving here in Winchester. We've picked up around an inch and a half of additional accumulation in the past two hours. The snow is now sticking on the roads. I'd say we're looking at around 5 inches total accumulation up to this point.

[arlwx]

At 715 pm 28 Feb 2005 in Arlington VA:

32 degrees
Light/moderate snow, 1/3 mile visibility
Total snow= 2 1/4 inches

plus by 8 pm when I had shoveled everything (and some things twice) another 1/2 inch.

[jimvb]

In Chester and Petersburg areas of Virginia... nasty day. Temperature between 33 and 36 all day long. Cold, rainy and drizzly, with some wind. It did start out in the early morning hours as sleet and freezing rain. There was a layer of melty sleet on my cars that was easily pushed off with a hand, and the trees had a wet covering of ice on them. It was somewhat strange, actually. But then it turned to all rain, with occasional splatty snowflakes and some sleet thrown in. I heard that Richmond had some snow, but no more than about an inch except north of the city.

[Coredesat]

Downtown Richmond saw half an inch of snow, which was mostly washed away by the rain that fell for most of the day.

Much of that snow fell in 45 minutes, though. If all that rain had been snow, Richmond probably would've been buried.

[jimvb]

My rain gauge measured 0.40 inch yesterday. If that were all snow, if it were wet snow, it would be 3 inches. If it were fluffy stuff, maybe up to 6 inches. Doesn't sound like much by northeast US standards, but 3-6 inches does indeed bury Richmond.

[Lowpressure]

Not a winter storm, but clipper has provided light to moderate snow most of the afternoon. Temp here 33.8 so no accumulations. LWX states a few inches on the ground in the Charlottesville area.