Articles from February 2008



Looks like rain and maybe some snow for Southwestern parts of the area! Sunny day now gonna turn cloudy!

Today was supposed to be all sunny, but a disturbance is headed into the southern parts of the region and will likely bring a cloudy afternoon and maybe some rain to the south. I could see it eeking out some snow showers in the higher terrain as the upper levels are cold enough.  In northern [...]

Storm over!

This ended up as I had thought yesterday when I posted about there notbeing much moisture. Things will improve after a dreary start saturday. Temperatures willremain at or below normal through next week. Rain looks likely mondaynight through tuesday. The next chance of precip after that could comenext weekend. All for now.

Winter weather thoughts this mornind

Winter storm watch remains. Feel more areas may be under advisorycriteria (>4" snow or >.25" of ice) than thought. True winter stormcriterea for ice would be southwestern VA and some MD areas near thePA border. Smaller amounts of precip elsewhere will lead to a loweraccumulation. Still early so keep checking for updates.

Winter Storm Watches are up. Messy Mix for Friday into Saturday!

The national weather service has come out with Watches and this looks like a long term icing event starting as snow most areas tomorrow night. The surface cold will mean that the warming taking place aloft will not make it to the surface so Ice will become a dominant type. this will be especially true [...]

Winter returns

Winter has come back and we could see multiple chances for wintryweather and snow through the end of the month and into next. As of now, today should feature a period of snow which will dust manyareas north of fredericksburg and up into maryland. Areas furthernorth will see 1 to 2 inches with isolated. Inch [...]

Light Snow tomorrow. Ice Storm Friday!

Light Snow will overspread the northern Half of Virginia and Maryland tomorrow. 1 to as much a 3 inches will fall, from Fredericksburg northward with the near 3″ occurring in Maryland. 3-5″ is expected in the higher, western facing, mountains. Friday could be a very slippery day with widespread icing issues and maybe some accumulating [...]

Some snow in the north tommorrow. More to come!

Light snow will visit northern va and md tommorrow. 1 to 3" amountscould fall. More snow in MD than VA. Friday looks like a snow to a mix scenario. This could still drop afair amount of snow Thursday night into Friday. More to come.

Very warm day to give way to colder and potentially wintry weather!

Highs reached the 70's in many places, but will head to colder andstormier times. Clipper: so far I am unimpressed, but the NWS is concerned that modelscould be underplaying the slystem. So, in northern VA and MD, therecould be some accumulating snow wednesday. Thursdat through saturday: a variety of winter weather appears to becoming. Snow [...]

Warm today. Then seasonal. Winter weather later this week

Very warm this morning with fallind temperatures. This week is notclear cut, but, I have a lot of information showing thursday throughat least saturday could have several rounds of frozen precipitation.Stay tuned.

Weekend to end rainy. Snow/Ice threat increasing for Thursday – Friday

We are rather calm weather wise this weekend with highs slightly below normal today and slightly above tomorrow. By tomorrow afternoon, rain should overspread the area.Scattered showers will likely turn to snow showers Monday and Monday night in the north and Mountains but that will be after a rather mild start in the 50s and [...]