Forecast: Winter wonderland to melt away

This morning dawned with a bone chilling 9.7 degrees F. at 7 am along with 6 inches of snow. Fresh snowcover and excellent radiational cooling will do it every time.

Latest NAM trends colder Tue. night, while the GFS trends warmer.

August Jim, which model was more accurate with yesterday's storm?

There's nothing better than a cold, crisp, sunny morning after a snowfall.

NWS saying problems Tues nite and again on weekend???? Much too early to be battered like this. Not to mention, the retailers really need a better shopping season this year. Wintry weather, particulary on the weekend, hurts that and hurts the economy overall.

With all the rain we've had the past few months, what we really need is 10 days straight of no precip.

snowlover, the GFS showed potential for this early on and actually last Monday it was pretty close to what ended up happening... then it waffled a bit here and there with regards to how close the coastal would come to the coast. The NAM is usually a bit tough to buy outside 48 hours or so but did pretty well with this event. I would usually side with the GFS in the medium range, but it's often good to take a blend.

ThinkSpring, next weekend has looked potentially interesting as well as you mention. One or two runs (last night's GFS for example) have shown another coastal system developing. Right now it looks like we may be too deep into the cold and anything would just shoot off to our south and out to sea, but we often see those types of situations become more amplified (allowing a storm to climb the coast) as the event approaches. Something to keep in the back of our minds for now... till after we get past the midweek possibility.

Yay snow! 3 in or so in Burke, Va.

Please sir, may I have some more?

In Alexandria we are still waiting for this season's first accumulation...

About one inch here in the Columbia Heights West/Baileys Crossroads area. Could have been 4 to 6 inches had the ground not been so warm.

Wednesday's rain & 62F is turning into a wintry-mix/freezing-rain mess Tuesday night with mid-forties dropping to subfreezing. Normally this should be one of AugustaJim's boring-forties plain ol' rains. We're supposed to have the Fabulettes Tuesday night @ the Clarendon Ballroom. What goes here??? Another MNR plot to mess with one of my swing dances, I presume. Had this been last year, the CB event would have been "bumped" for someone's "private-event" Christmas party. This year, only the Dec. 15th event is bumped thus far...

I agree with ThinkSpring. We've had so much precipitation over the last month that the ground is totally saturated, and my basement sump pump has been working overtime.

We need an extended dry period for some evaporation to take place. With the low sun angle this time of year, that is tough to accomplish.

1.8" in NW Spotsy, can't get site to take my storm total, or look at others reports.

It would appear likely that any "flakes" on Tue/Wed would be of the crispy variety.

Loved the early snow yesterday -- looks like this season might be as snowy as they predict.

About an inch in North Arlington however in South Arlington, barely any accumulation. Temps were probably a degree or so colder here.

Never got above freezing at my house (NW Montgomery Co.) Who would have predicted that?

The sun did help melt away a lot of our snow, but we never got above 36 degrees. Wondering about school delay tomorrow, since all that's melted is sure to refreeze tonite!

In the Blue Ridge Mtns of Virginia, we got above freezing in the 30s today at my location. Not a lot of melting though; I enjoyed a few toboggan runs. Currently 20.5

Sometimes I like rain, Bombo, but please note I am not a member of the Much Needed Freezing Rain club.

ABC 7 says a 2 hr delay for Culpeper Schools.

I posted a couple more pics from yesterday's event.

Medium and long range still looks potentially fun after this midweek event. Plenty of chilly air .. weekend threat sitting south (not a bad place in this range) and perhaps more things to track after.