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Rain appears to be mixing back in for now in Downtown DC, as rates really have let up over past few minutes.

So the folks Northwest who whined and complained all week, at times making this board unreadable due to the micro-aggression and in-my-backyard-only weather analysis, are the ones who are once again getting accumulating snowfall. So predictable.

Heaviest snow of the year in Downtown D.C., and maybe heaviest in at least a few years. But still not sticking.

All snow in Downtown DC low-lands. No sticking yet though.

LWX lowering totals but still expects changeover near daybreak https://twitter.com/nws_baltwash/status/1358355366212468740?s=21

Winter Storm Watch just issued -- been a while since I've seen so many counties in the DMV all included under a Watch

I think that was the Jan 31 storm not the Feb. 2/3 snow event. There were three events in that same week. One Sunday -- cold smoke 6 inches of snow that kept trending north. Then the warm bust midweek. And then the blizzard on Friday.

That storm really sucked in the city -- Forecast was for like 5 inches of snow, and think we were even under a WSW. But it really struggled to accumulate, even though the snow fell after dark. I think DC ended up with maybe 1 to 2 inches on the grass.. It was a pretty big bust, but no one cared because everyone was so distracted by the Blizzard that was on its way 2 days later.

Finally, some good snow back in Downtown DC. It had been mix of pixie dust and sleet pellets, but now ripping fat flakes, at least for now. Roads that had stayed wet all day, now covered in white.

Meanwhile, DC declared a “snow emergency” and is towing cars from snow routes, which will cost lots of unsuspecting people $375.

Yea, but just 2 hours ago, some were arguing that it wasn’t even a real dry slot — just bad radar over Wear Virginia -/ and yet, here we are with dry slot already to Fairfax

And it certainly looks like the big dry slot is about to head into DC., within an hour or so.

Pretty meager snowfall rates in downtown DC. Maybe a quarter inch an hour, and that may be stretching it

Chuck Bell on NBC 4 just said he sees the dry slot in West Virginia, and he is "worried" that is heading to DC area and "will cut down on snow totals"

The weather forecaster on WUSA 9 has a snow map of 3 to 5 inches for most of the region, but just said he's not that "confident' in it, and said he may have to push his forecast up for areas south of DC because he is already getting reports of 4 inches on the ground near Charlottesville and Madison County, etc.

i would say that light snow just switched over to Moderate snow in Downtown DC. Visibility down to a half-mile or so.

What time do you think the snow will be at peak intensity today in the DC metro region?

Back to solid light snow in Downtown DC. Visibility probably down to a mile or so. Fakes earlier this morning where fairly large and moist. This latest band seems to have smaller, drier flakes.

Down to just flurries in Washington DC. Looks like about a half inch fell so so far.

I think Downtown DC may have just hit its highest accumulation in two years. Snowing steadily now. Everything covered, except salted major streets.

I hope @psu correct because it does feel still a chance for this to be a Feb 10 2010 with a Colder air mass to start. That day a decade ago the snow never really stuck till evening, and then DC got a nice 3 inches after dark. Then dry slot and light sleet. Even at 7 am the next morning, most in DC assumed it was over but then boom at 8 am, which lasted till 5 pm. (At least North of Falls Church, Va).. Probably not likely this time, but at very least, as he noted, the front end should be more robust this time. Problem is most models suggest the Feb 10 2010 Balimore (nearly 2 feet) is Wilmington this time.

In DC, I am still holding slim hopes that this ends like the Feb. 10 2010 Miller B, which formed just in time to give DC like 10 inches from the coastal. But i recall that storm was painful for this those who lived in Northern Virginia. So for them, I would be especially annoyed right now that so many on here seemed to root for/suggest that coastal storm was our only hope to really cash in.

Yes, we rooted our way to a Philadelphia Special.

There are actually relatively few storms of any sort of consequence where I have felt that inside-the-beltway gets totally screwed over, where its a total dud here while areas within a half-hour of Downtown DC cash in. I think there was one storm in 2006 where DC got like 6 inches and Columbia Maryland got like 20. I think the big bust in March of 2011 or so also left DC with very little while parts of Fairfax got like 8 inches. But it rarely seems to work out like that. At least until you get to Upper Montgomery or Frederick Counties, we tend to rise or fall together more than it may seem, unless we are talking about 1 to 2 inch or 2 to 4 inch type storms or ice events.

I hope the models converge that by tomorrow all the forecasts for DC are at least in the 6 to 10 inch range. It will be a letdown if we don't even get warning level snows out of this. Yes, I know it hasn't snowed in 2 years. But a 3 to 6- inch storm, especially spread over two days and probably not even sure until Monday morning if Part 2 will even arrive, really isn't going to make up for that.