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Well, then. The National Weather Service has canceled its Winter Storm Warning for the region, and replaced it instead with a mere advisory in effect until 9 p.m. What does that mean? D.C. certainly didn’t get much of the snow that was initially projected, and it most likely won’t be getting it overnight. The Capital Weather Gang’s Jason Samenow wrote:

In the immediate Washington, D.C. metro area and points east, the snow output of has underperformed. We conceded late this morning that our forecast of 5-10 inches in this area would probably not be achieved, but indicated a few inches remain possible – let’s say 1-4 inches or so. The National Weather Service recently downgraded its forecast to around 4-6 inches from 8-10 inches.

He warns that there is still an off chance for some snow this evening (between one to two inches), but likely not enough to make much of an impact—and certainly not enough to keep you from going to work tomorrow. Regardless, be careful if you have to drive.

Earlier this week we toyed with the Gang over their choice of Snowquester for the storm’s name. While we insisted it didn’t make any sense at the time—we were heading into the storm with basically no snow all winter, and getting snow would have produced a snow surplus—we’re happy to concede that the storm actually ended up fitting it’s name perfectly. It was a ton of hype with little obvious impact, after all. (The Gang is still awesome, and a must-read for all things weather.)

And now that Snowquester seems to have run its course, people are already bandying about new names: Noquester, Nomageddon, Snowbust. Even Metro got a little snarky. We’re gonna go with Much Ado About Snowthing.