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looks like 6-10

FCPS is CLOSED tomorrow -- no virtual learning either https://www.fcps.edu/

It varies across the region a good amount. Per the latest reports: 1ENE Alexandria 7.5" at 12pm 1WSW Annandale 10.5" at 12pm Both reports are from trained spotters

yes please... would be a nice 3-6... maybe 4-8

Starting to see a lot of reports of trees and power lines down in Stafford/Spotsy counties

We don't even have to wait that long lol... just a few days

10:45am PNS still has the 7am totals from all 3 major airports

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC 1039 AM EST Mon Jan 3 2022 .SYNOPSIS... Low pressure will continue to track northeastward along a cold front this afternoon. High pressure returns for Tuesday before a weak cold front crosses the area on Wednesday. Another low pressure system is slated to cross the region late in the week. Drier weather returns over the weekend. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... A surface low pressure system currently over the Carolinas will track northeastward. The heaviest of snowfall is between Orange County in Virginia to Anne Arundel County in Maryland and about 20 miles on both sides of this line. Snow amounts have reached the 10-inch mark in parts of Stafford, VA within the past couple minutes. This tops the list so far with this winter storm event. The back edge of the snowfall is from northwest Albemarle County in Virginia to central Loudoun County in Virginia to northern Harford County in Maryland. Temperatures are in the lower to middle 30s across the region. Some low 40s closer to the metro areas and southern MD. We have increased snow amounts for central and eastern Virginia, and for parts of Maryland near and southeast of Washington D.C. In contrast, we have decreased snow amounts along the Mason- Dixon region and parts of eastern West Virginia since most of these locations have received very little to zero snowfall. Snow rates will be 1 to as much as 3 inches per hour where it is snowing heavily at this time and areas due east of there through mid afternoon. Snow will taper off then end from SW to NE through the afternoon hours as the low departs the area. Do expect the entire system to be offshore by early this evening. Cold air will remain in place overnight lows dropping down into the teens to low 20s for most.

Wonder who this is... right by me lol 0950 AM SNOW 2 WSW WEST SPRINGFIELD 38.76N 77.25W 01/03/2022 M6.3 INCH FAIRFAX VA TRAINED SPOTTER

6.5" 3E Chantilly by trained spotter at 10:30am

uh wat

Nice... well deserved

06z GFS/GEFS was nice for all Thursday into Friday that is

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1017 AM EST MON JAN 03 2022 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 1012 AM SNOW MONTCLAIR 38.61N 77.34W 01/03/2022 M7.5 INCH PRINCE WILLIAM VA BROADCAST MEDIA

Hmmm (time sensitive for 10am report -- https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=lwx&issuedby=LWX&product=HRR ) MARTIN AIRPORT SNOW 86 86 100 NW5 30.09F VSB 1/4 HX 112

BWI/IAD/DCA all 1/4 mile VIS at 10am

8" in Thornhill in Orange County

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 949 AM EST MON JAN 03 2022 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0930 AM SNOW 3 E CHANTILLY 38.87N 77.36W 01/03/2022 M4.2 INCH FAIRFAX VA TRAINED SPOTTER

9:35am ZFP's now has 6-10 DC/FFX/PW... 8-12 PG/Spotsy/Stafford

From an hour ago PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 922 AM EST MON JAN 03 2022 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0830 AM SNOW 3 N CHANTILLY 38.91N 77.41W 01/03/2022 M3.3 INCH FAIRFAX VA NWS EMPLOYEE

Nice hit on the 06z GFS for late Thursday night into Friday morning

Mesoscale Discussion 0028 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0413 AM CST Mon Jan 03 2022 Areas affected...Parts of southwest through northern Virginia and central Maryland Concerning...Heavy snow Valid 031013Z - 031415Z SUMMARY...Heavy snow rates around 1-2 inches per hour and occasionally greater appear increasingly possible along and to the east of the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, into the Greater Washington D.C. and Baltimore Metropolitan areas, through 7-10 AM EST. DISCUSSION...Precipitation rates have increased along a frontal zone north through north-northeast of a deepening surface cyclone center across the South Carolina Piedmont. Although temperatures near the surface and in layers aloft are generally still warm to the east of the Appalachians, across much of the southern Mid Atlantic, a combination of strengthening mid/upper forcing for ascent and gradual low-level cold advection on northerly surface flow is likely to contribute to profiles increasingly conducive to snow. Surface temperatures are already approaching freezing across much of the Greater Baltimore and Washington D.C. metro areas into the immediate lee of the Blue Ridge, where strengthening mid-level frontogenetic forcing for ascent appears likely to become focused, beneath an intensifying divergent flow field between coupled upper jets. Forecast soundings suggest that lift will become increasingly maximized within the dendritic growth layer through 12-15Z, in the presence of seasonably high moisture content (including precipitable water on the order of .75-1.0 inches) supportive of 1-2 inch per hour snow rates, and perhaps occasionally heavier. ..Kerr.. 01/03/2022 ...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov for graphic product... ATTN...WFO...PHI...AKQ...LWX...RNK...MRX...

Fox5 just said report of TSSN in/near CHO