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Mid-Atlantic and Central US slammed by snow and ice
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1/6/2025
AccuWeather's Jon Porter provides the latest updates on the major winter storm that has swept through the central and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. with snow and ice.
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These storms that we see in Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, they're almost all the same.
00:05
It's what I call fast and furious, right?
00:08
The snow comes in, it thumps, you get the problems, and then it tends to end quickly.
00:14
And that's probably what we're going to be dealing with here today.
00:18
That snow extends all the way into Pennsylvania as well.
00:20
Yeah, that's right, at least for the heaviest of the snow, Bernie.
00:23
And that's the reason that AccuWeather meteorologists, ahead of all other known sources, stress the
00:28
concern about road and travel impacts today in the D.C. area.
00:33
These are interstate highways that are heavily trafficked.
00:36
And look at the deep blue that's been going on in through there.
00:39
That's indicative of snow that's falling at one to two inches per hour.
00:44
And Bernie, when it's falling that fast, it's difficult for even the most experienced road
00:48
crews to keep up with.
00:49
All right, let's talk about Pennsylvania, some problems along Interstate 80, Pennsylvania
00:54
Turnpike across the entire Keystone State this morning.
00:58
That's been a good, steady snow along the duration of Interstate 80 from east to west
01:03
across Pennsylvania, so certainly slowing travel in that area.
01:07
But the heaviest of the snow earlier was across the corridor from the Pennsylvania Turnpike
01:11
southbound, where there'll be several inches of snow.
01:13
All right, look at that dark blue shading again.
01:16
It's going to start letting up here shortly in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., but boy, that
01:20
area around Fredericksburg towards Salisbury, that may end up being the area that gets close
01:26
to a foot out of this, John.
01:28
That's where those most persistent heavy snow bands have been, and it doesn't take many
01:33
hours of one to two inch per hour snow in that deep blue shade here for it really to
01:38
start piling up.
01:39
And that's why the message we've had has been sort of the heaviest corridor, D.C. southbound
01:45
between D.C. and Fredericksburg out to Salisbury, as you mentioned.
01:48
That's where we're going to be dealing with that heavy snow, but look at the back edge
01:51
of the heavier snow for now, Hagerstown back toward Harrisonburg in Virginia.
01:57
That's going to be pulling to the east.
01:59
That's why there can be a bit of a lull here in the D.C. area before another period of
02:03
light snow, maybe another inch or inch or two in some spots later this afternoon.
02:09
Before we get to that, we want to get you a little farther south.
02:11
What a morning in Richmond.
02:12
Four inches of snow during the overnight area hours, and John, in AccuWeather now predicting
02:18
over a half inch of ice.
02:20
And that's enough to cause some serious problems here in the Richmond area in terms of ice
02:26
accumulating on power lines that can really weigh down trees and power lines and lead
02:31
to significant increases in power outages.
02:34
So be looking for that in the Richmond corridor here further south toward Hampton Roads and
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Virginia Beats.
02:39
It's just rain this morning.
02:40
All right, let's put future radar in the motion.
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You'll see that area, as I said, it's back.
02:45
Here comes that break that you were talking about, John.
02:48
As we go forward, you'll see that snow start to fill back in later on today.
02:53
There it is across parts of Virginia, and here it comes eastward later on today.
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I'm a little concerned about this second piece here, Bernie, especially as it rotates through
03:02
southwestern Pennsylvania, West Virginia, parts of eastern Ohio, because there can be
03:07
some embedded bands of heavier snow showers, maybe even a brief snow squall in some locations.
03:13
And then look at the future radar here.
03:14
By 7 o'clock, that rotates back into the Baltimore-Washington area.
03:19
That's why travel conditions can once again be challenging later today, just in time for
03:24
the evening commute and thereafter.
03:26
There's the accumulation.
03:27
So, you know, John, we issued this map about, I think it was four days ago.
03:31
We've not changed it.
03:32
No, we didn't.
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We issued this ahead of any other source, and of course, if you can go into the AccuWeather
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app, which is a free download in the App Store or Google Play on Android, and then of course
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AccuWeather.com, we have WinterCast, and you can look at how much snow we're expecting
03:46
plus the prospects for a little bit more or a little bit less right down in your community.
03:50
It's a great resource.
03:52
AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter.
03:53
John, thanks for joining us here on AccuWeather Early.
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