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Rain/slushy ice/snow mix in Fairfax. Walked outside a bit and confirmed here up high at 420 feet.

Wind is roaring in a sustained fashion... watching my neighbor's dead trees aimed at my house.

Moderate rain... and some serious wind gusts. Come on dry slot. Clear this out.

3 inches to end the snow here in Fairfax. Sleet has started as the radar shows.

Flurries in Fairfax.

Ended with an average of just over 10 inches south side of Fairfax area. Pretty consistent with this part of the county.

Significant ice on the trees in Fairfax, pines are drooping quite a bit. This winter really has been unbetter than nothing. Ice and sleet and continuous cold, and almost no snow.

Mostly light rain/drizzle in Fairfax, was a dusting of sleet.

Honestly I don't personally consider this a bust at all. Just because some group predicts significant snowfall doesn't mean it is a likely outcome. Organizations that forecast weather do what they do for whatever reason, but there was never going back a week a high likelihood of significant snow around DC. Never.

Which is average for late February?

Still sleet in Fairfax, although under the orange returns seeing the cooling aloft happen in real time with clumpy sleet and even a few flakes making it down. We need sustained orange to get there, guess we have a chance in the last couple hours based on radar.

For sure, it's number 50 on my list of 100 things that needed to get done on this old house since I bought it. I'm hoping given its age it's been through this before.

I'm sweating at the moment. I expect little snow as this setup doesn't support significant snow at DC's latitude, but have an 80 foot pine bent about 35 degrees with the entire crown past vertical hanging toward my house. I'm hoping this is mostly sleet, like the last storm, but definitely very nervous. Of course this would be the year we get ice.

I'd appreciate some sun at some point... getting to be pretty miserable. Another cold and dreary day.

Getting needle/column like ice now with the sleet in Fairfax.