Snow falling on Suitland. Photo by IMGoph


Apparently, it’s kinda, sorta snowing in Washington this afternoon. Most of the flakes are landing as freezing rain with the temperature hovering on the melty side of 32 degrees, but just enough is sticking to get people excited and panicky.

Huffington Post, naturally, has a slideshow of their favorite flurry-related tweets. (Though consistent with HuffPost’s struggle with irony, none are about the McFlurry.) And they gave first word to NBC’s Luke Russert, who tweeted:

What, no prognostication on how a flurry in D.C. impacts tomorrow’s New Hampshire primary or this weekend’s NFL playoff games? I’m disappointed in Russert, and moreso in Huffington Post for letting him off the hook for such an apolitical tweet at this sensitive time.

WJLA, true to its TBD subsidiary, was ready with a region-wide photo set, featuring wintry conditions from as far away as Faquier County, Va., which seemed legitimately frosted over.

Not to be outdone, City Paper Managing Editor Mike Madden went on the alt-weekly’s parking deck and snapped pictures of the “Top 10 Snowflakes.”

“At City Paper, we like to keep our readers informed,” Madden writes in an email. “And then when they’re finished reading the useful stuff on the site, they get to click through the world’s dumbest slideshow as a reward and/or punishment.”

The websites of neither WMATA or the District Department of Transportation have any advisories up, though it might be worth checking Ward 3 to see if Councilmember Mary Cheh is out and about offering shoveling tips. Writes the Capital Weather Gang:

Places north and west, while seeing less overall snow, are getting some accumulation as well. About a dusting to 1” has been observed in spots, including some on roadways particularly during heavier snow. The precipitation and clouds have kept many of us in the mid-30s and falling this afternoon after reaching highs near 40. There’s still more to go as additional snow bands move through mainly the southern half of the area.

But seriously, this dusting seems unlikely to fall into the lexicon of, say, “Snowpocalypse” or “Snowmageddon,” both of which Cheh recently said during D.C. Council hearings.

UPDATE: It looks like DDOT might have won the flurry with this:

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