At 5:30 p.m., the National Weather Service said the preliminary total at Richmond International Airport was at 9 inches.
Even with the final total from RIC outstanding, that still made it the biggest snowstorm so early in the season.
In Richmond weather records dating to 1897, the heaviest snow total that occurred earlier than Dec. 10 was 7.3 inches on Nov. 6-7, 1953.
The record December snowstorm for Richmond was 17.2 inches on Dec. 22-23, 1908, according to the National Weather Service in Wakefield.