Steady snow piles up in DC as winter storm slams the mid-Atlantic

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Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack reported live from the Washington Monument on Feb. 11 as snow cascaded across the area.

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00:00Extreme storm chaser Aaron Jajak following this latest blast winter storm moving through the Mid-Atlantic

00:07He's joining us right now from Washington DC with an update go ahead

00:14Yeah, hey guys I am in Washington DC

00:17I think there's no doubt about it when you see this building back behind me in the Washington Monument

00:21Looking like I'm in a snow globe right now as the snow continues to dump here in the nation's capital

00:27We were expecting that three to six inch snow range or so and I would say already in these open areas

00:32We're approaching that four inch mark. So

00:35Significant snow coming down here in DC. They've been treating the roads all day laying salt down all across the town

00:41In fact, they've actually already started to clean up the snow. So they've run the running plows

00:46They're moving the snow and the slush off the streets running snow blowers and shovels on the sidewalk

00:51So not waiting for it all to pile up because we are expecting to get more snow. This isn't over yet

00:56We still have several more hours at least of the snow coming down through the overnight hours

01:01And again, as I mentioned we were probably in that four inch range

01:04So I've already basically met the lower end of the range that we were looking at here in Washington DC continuing to snow here

01:12Roads are going to be difficult to travel on so you're good best to stay indoors

01:15Thankfully, we're past the rush hour the peak of rush hour. Most folks are home right now

01:20Hopefully enjoying the snow but surprisingly lots of people out here in Washington DC walking around here at the monument

01:28Usually at this time of night most people are headed out of the out of the city

01:31But I think people are out enjoying this beautiful snow here

01:35This is one of the best places to experience a winter storm in my opinion in the world is right here in the nation's capital

01:42Washington DC with all these lights and beautiful monuments here in the in the nation's capital

01:47Well, I will be tracking the storm here through the evening into tomorrow as well for you all for AccuWeather

01:52I'm Aaron J. Jack back to you guys

01:55All right, Aaron. So we were watching your video earlier before the snow started

01:59It looked like that those crews in Washington DC were just dumping

02:03Salt across the roadway. So how much of a difference in your estimation has that salt made it to the roadways?

02:10They're in our nation's capital

02:12Yeah

02:15For sure, you know and some of the roadways I was on it looked like it had already snowed

02:18There had been so much salt dropped on the roadways

02:21It did hold off the snow for quite some time

02:23Some of the roadways where they really packed the salt down on the road

02:27Stayed wet for a couple of hours after the snow fell

02:30But now there's this the steady snow has been falling heavy snow heavy steady snow

02:35I would say in the one inch approaching the two inch per hour snowfall rates has

02:39Overtaken the salt on the roads even you've got a slushy nasty mess here and all the streets across

02:45Washington DC, so thankfully things aren't too bad traffic's moving pretty well

02:50All right, good stuff Aaron. We appreciate you reporting as always there in Washington DC the number to beat 7.2 inches

02:56That's what fell on one day back in early January. Are we going to do it today tonight?

03:00It's gonna be a close call here Aaron mentioned four plus already there at least unofficially

03:05And we have plenty more hours to go here into DC

03:08We're about midway through the event in Washington DC look at the heavy snow down in Salisbury, Maryland

03:13That's a deep blue the reflectivity there indicating some big chunky wet flakes coming down

03:18They're accumulating well now with that said the rain snow line is taking a little step across areas like Ocean City

03:24Seeing some mixing there after a great snowy start there in Ocean City meanwhile Bethany Beach and Cape Henlopen and across the bay into South

03:31Jersey, it's all snow there

03:33But also we were looking at this little feature here on the map 30 minutes ago

03:37It's still holding together

03:38Okay

03:39With a little bit of an enhanced snowfall rate there right over York PA the south side of York

03:44and some areas near Gettysburg a little bit south of Gettysburg and the southern half of Lancaster County Quarryville and

03:50Willow Street and so forth so we're gonna keep an eye on that, but the the main event here certainly

03:55Washington DC

03:56Dale City Falls Church down into Woodbridge and other areas here nearby where again the the northern neck here

04:04Seeing some widespread widespread snow there. That's coming down pretty heavily and Baltimore. You're not exempt from this

04:09We've been spending a lot of time in DC

04:11Baltimore you're seeing almost as much as Washington DC still high impacts into Baltimore County up into areas near Harford County

04:18and into Cecil County, Maryland

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