Are you annoyed because the District salted its roads for what ended up being some rain? Yeah, well Mayor Vince Gray has a message for you. more ›

With snow expected today and officials nervous of what it could do to the evening commute, the Office of Personnel Management announced this morning that federal workers could take unscheduled leave or work from home. more ›

While we may get up to an inch of snow tomorrow, today the D.C. Council voted to table a proposed law that would force more residents to shovel their walks. more ›

It was on this day two years ago that the District dug itself out of 18 inches of snow. Today, well, it's bone dry and seasonably chilly. more ›

Once again, Old Man Winter says no to statehood, as a forecasted snowstorm in New Hampshire compels D.C. officials to cancel their trip there, where they were to lobby local officials on behalf of the cause. more ›

There's a flurry in D.C. right now. Naturally, every news website is doing something about it. So here's ours. more ›

It's a usual winter-time complaint in the District -- snow falls, residents and business-owners alike fail to properly shovel and pedestrians are left to navigate treacherous sidewalks. But a bill making its way through the D.C. Council would finally update a ninety-year-old law and more forcefully require residents and business to shovel their walks after any significant amount of snow. more ›

On the second anniversary of a cop bringing a gun to a snowball fight, Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh questioned the directors of DPW and DDOT today about the city's preparedness for winter storms. DPW chief William Howland recommended listening to weather reports. more ›

With snow in the forecast late tonight and early tomorrow, the District will deploy it's snow-removing team tonight just in case. more ›

"Near average" is about all the Post's Capital Weather Gang could muster to describe what the coming winter will look like. more ›

Sure, we know it's sunny outside right now. But, according to reliable reports, certain areas of the Washington metro region may in be store for a rare October Class 3 Killstorm this weekend. more ›

It's the middle of August, and generally one of the more pleasant mornings we've experienced so far this summer. Let's talk about snow! more ›

Was the traffic chaos that developed during January's big snowstorm a sign that the Washington region is ill-prepared to keep its citizens informed in the event of a terrorist attack? Maybe! At least, that was the conclusion reached by several local leaders yesterday during a Department of Homeland Security briefing. more ›

Good morning, Washington. No, your blurry eyes from last night's drinking are not deceived, there is a small dusting of snow on the ground. It's mostly sticking to rooftops of buildings and cars from my vantage point in the District, but southern and western suburbs have gotten up to an inch or two. Seems like the sun today will melt most of it. more ›

Remember Friday? When it was in the mid-70s? And sunny? And people were barbecuing? Yeah, well, that was all a horrible, horrible tease. As of 2:35 this afternoon, the National Weather Service has announced a winter weather advisory for most of the D.C. metro area, beginning at 9 p.m. this evening, and calling for two to five inches of "wintry mix of rain and sleet changing over to snow." Remember the last time this region got up to five inches of wintry mix, combined with low temperatures? Because according to one forecast, "the duration and intensity should be long and high enough for accumulations on the roadways to occur so the morning commute will be affected." Like I said: horrible. more ›

Well, well, well -- the tables certainly appear to have turned in D.C.'s favor this winter. First, we got to rub it in the faces of New York politicians who mocked our response to overwhelming snow. Now, it's time to dip into the sweet schadenfreude yet again, as Chicago suffers through the latest big storm to hit the United States this winter. more ›

Adventures in Craigslist is a whenever-we-find-something-interesting series in which we dive headfirst into the vast complexities of the Washington region's Craigslist. Today: the people you encounter during a thundersnowtrafficpocalypse. more ›

It's been a pretty good week for NBC4 reporter Pat Collins. First, we highlighted his awesome dinosaur lunch box and bomber hat. Then, he had a delicious-sounding wintry cocktail named after him. (Peppermint schnapps, Baileys, and hot chocolate? Uh, I'll take one of those, please.) Then, last night, Collins truly broke into the zeitgeist: his hoagie-related double entendre -- "if there's any night you need 15 inches of fun, this would be the night"-- was featured as last night's Daily Show Moment of Zen. more ›

Everyone's flipping out about the photograph which ran above the fold of the Washington Post yesterday morning, featuring Zach Burroughs, an Arlington man whose Wedesday afternoon jaunt turned into the toast of the Internet. more ›

Now that we finally have a real winter storm under our belts this season -- was it everything you were hoping for, Washington? -- it's back to the usual fine white dusting. According to forecasts, the D.C. area should expect to see a pair of clipper systems move through the region today and tomorrow, which will result in a few flurries hitting the ground. D.C. shouldn't see significant accumulation -- especially with snow plows and crews still out in force, cleaning up from Wednesday's mess -- but there is a slight possibility we could find an extra half-inch of snow on the ground by the end of the day. more ›

Yesterday's insanity, as captured by our talented Flickr pool contributors. more ›

A 23-year-old Prince William County man is fighting life-threatening injuries after a 40-year-old, Tyree M. Alexander, stabbed him in the throat with a box cutter around 4:30 a.m. in Manassas, Virginia this morning. What did the young man do to provoke such a violent reaction? The Examiner and WUSA9 report that the he threw a snowball at Alexander, who was arrested after police arrived and found him fighting with his neighbors. more ›

Last night, WMATA announced that Metrobuses, before shutting down for the evening, would operate on "emergency routes only." They repeated that this morning, when restoring service. Got it. Oh, wait: which roads, precisely, are the District's snow emergency routes? That's a very good question. more ›

As the Post's Mike DeBonis reported last night, some Twitter users predictably took to the social networking service to criticize the District's response to the storm that hit the city overnight. Most prominent amongst the complainers may have been ABC's Jake Tapper, who not only wondered where all the plows were but also pondered recruiting Newark Mayor Cory Booker to help D.C. deal with the cleanup efforts. more ›

As your editor updated the blog during last night's snow/trafficpocalypse, I found the time to piece together this little timeline, marking our cranky meteorologist's evolution from a humble stick figure begging for some pleasant weather to the unapologetic curmudgeon he has become. We love ya, Davy -- don't ever change. more ›

That's the quote of the morning, as we survey the fact that most major highways in Virginia and Maryland, and some arterial routes in the District, looked more like a wintertime version of the explosion scene from The Day After than a normal stretch of highway. more ›

Good morning, Washington. Well, that had to have rivaled the longest evening commute on record, did it not? Between five to twelve inches of snow fell around the region in a span of but a few hours, leading to one of the messier evenings we can recall: northbound traffic on the George Washington Parkway only reopened this morning, passengers were stuck on buses for up to five hours, and D.C. Councilmember Tommy Wells reports that a plow driver told him that rush hour traffic didn't die down until 1 a.m. Crazy. Did you abandon your car in the city last night and can't find it today? You should call the Department of Public Works at (202) 541-6083 to see if it was towed. More information you need to know today: more ›