The National Weather Service has put the D.C. region under a Winter Storm Watch, pending the possibility of as many as 5 inches of snow.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until later this evening.
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Are you ready, D.C.?! That’s right: it’s the first snowfall of the season. We talked about it yesterday, and the outlook remains pretty much the same. Both Capital Weather and our local TV weatherpeople agree that we’ll get about an inch of unusually fluffy snow, with most of it falling by early afternoon. City Starts Looking For More Theft: Watch out, D.C. government ne’er-do-wells: Dan Tangherlini is on your trail. NBC4 reports that the…
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The better part of this week saw cloudy skies and moderate, Fall-like temperatures. Today, it’s back to hot and humid, and tomorrow will be even worse. So wild have the swings in temperature gotten, in fact, that Capital Weather is even predicting a freak snowstorm on Sunday. Crazy, you say? Probably. And an honest mistake (that has since been fixed), we’re guessing, but one we wish would come true….
All right, all right. We’ll admit that we may have been jumping the gun slightly when, ten days ago, we called the evening’s winter weather advisory our “last chance” for snow. But c’mon! It was already March, and beautiful weather was just around the corner. We were sick of hoarding bread, milk and toilet paper; tired of wondering what the hell “liberal leave” meant; and weary from the toll exacted by churning out an…
Washington’s last chance for snowpocalypse is upon us. The National Weather Service has issued a snow advisory beginning at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning through 7:00 p.m. in the evening. The Feds are calling for 3 to 4 inches of snow total, but our friends at Capital Weather are nudging the outlook closer to 1 or 2 inches in the metro area, the killjoys. This storm is a result of an Alberta Clipper, an icy…
Happy Valentine’s Day, Washington. It’s icy out! And, as Encino Man taught us, where there’s ice, puzzlement and disorientation won’t be far behind. We know you’ve got questions: will your power stay on on? Will you have to go into work? How horrible is your commute going to be? We’ll get to that in a second. But first, we must remind you of the traditional Washington area winter storm news edict: THERE SHALL BE NO…
If you can drag yourself out of bed early tomorrow morning (and if you’re like us, that’ll be difficult to manage with a post-Work Holiday Party Hangover), those of you in Virginia could be in for a nice treat: It’s time for the Geminid Meteor Shower. Astronomer Ken Wilson at the Science Museum of Virginia said as many as 120 meteors falling per hour are expected to be visible over Virginia at about 6 a.m….