Despite several days of assurances from the region’s weather forecasters that D.C. was sure to find itself buried under at least half a foot of wet, heavy snow it would appear, once again, that we find ourselves in the “snow hole.”

Though parts of Northern Virginia are digging themselves out, the National Weather Service has canceled its winter weather warning for the region, meaning that you have no excuse not to get back to your previously scheduled business. Unless, of course, you had planned on attending the revival of a certain wintertime Dupont Circle festivity this evening.

The supposedly “official” Dupont Circle snowball fight has been canceled, surely ruining plans tonight for hundreds of young people who hoped in earnest to memorialize on Instagram and Vine images of themselves being pasted with frosty projectiles.

No doubt goaded on by the repeated promises by the lexical thugs at the Capital Weather Gang that D.C.’s biggest snow accumulation in more than two years was imminent, the folks behind this planned mess of manufactured hipster whimsy originally planned to gather in the circle at 4 p.m. Then, as the storm proved to be even lamer than its Washington Post -issued nickname, the start time was pushed back until 8 p.m. But an orgiastic blitzkrieg of flying snow heaps under the glow of the street lamps now appears impossible, too.

What a shame. On the positive side, however, the snowball fight’s cancellation means we’ll be spared the “Harlem Shake” video the event’s organizers were planning on filming. That could have been the worst thing to happen at a snowball fight since that cop pulled a gun.