The snow is here Richmond! Snow finally started to stick to the ground and accumulate Sunday night.
Update: The snow stopped and final snowfalls are around 2 to 5 inches across the Richmond region. But use extreme caution when driving, as the roads are slick Monday morning.
Update: The models have shifted and Richmond and counties are back to 2 - 5 inches. As of Sunday night, the streets are very slick with the snow. Use extreme caution when driving.
Update: Snow totals upped! According to TV meteorologists on Twitter and Facebook, Richmond could see 3 - 6 inches of snow, and parts of Chesterfield up to 6 -9!
Update: As of Saturday afternoon, snow totals are looking like 2- 4 inches for Richmond, starting late Sunday into early morning Monday!
If you have access to local television, radio, internet, Twitter or Facebook, you’ve already heard the news – it’s going to snow in Richmond on Sunday. And this, apparently, is our only real hope for any snow this season.
Finally, it’s not a question of if it will snow in Richmond - it’s a question of how much.
And on that point, local meteorologists refuse to speculate.
Here’s what we know regarding what I like to call Blizzard 2012 and meteorological "experts" prefer to call "precipitation":
- It’s going to rain on Sunday, Feb. 19.
- At some point on Sunday, likely late in the afternoon / early evening, that rain will turn to snow.
- The level of snow we get depends on what atmosphere / cycles / routes / something meteorological does.
- Charlottesville and those random rural counties nobody can actually place but local news stations insist on reporting about will get actual, significant snow.
- Richmond could get 1-3 inches. Or we could get no accumulation. Or we could get more. No one knows yet.
- It will for sure be cold over-night on Sunday (I know, why do we know that and not about the snow levels??) and so expect icy roads on President’s Day Monday (therefore go now and mention your bald tires to your boss).
- You can monitor real weather conditions from real experts here and here.
- As of last weekend, local Target stores had sleds in-stock and on-sale.
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