mikeeng92

Western Hanover-Eastern Hanover-Western Chesterfield-Eastern Chesterfield (Including Col. Heights)-Western Henrico (Including the City of Richmond)-Eastern Henrico-Western King William- Eastern King William-Western King and Queen-Eastern King and Queen-Western Essex-Eastern Essex- 113 PM EST Thu Jan 29 2026 ...EXTREME COLD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills as low as 5 to 10 below possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, eastern, north central, south central, and southeast Virginia. * WHEN...From late Saturday night through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Frostbite and hypothermia will occur if unprotected skin is exposed to these temperatures. An extended period of freezing temperatures could cause ruptured water pipes.

979 mb low off OBX and little precip

Yea, one band could set up and move through dropping 2-4"

Wow huge!

Absolute trash model

Not bad, I want 4"

Got to see how the rest of today’s 12z runs go

I would take any snow on snow. When was the last time we had that? it would be nice to get any amount over 2” from this storm.

Unfortunately just cant trust the GFS right now, its been terrible.

LOL 30" with gusts to 50

CMC absolute Nuke

Crazy how fast that ice built up since the start of that batch

Trudging through the sleet on a long walk

Just heard from a plow operator in the east end of Henrico. Freezing rain has begun with instant accretion.

We have the ice thunderstorm freezing squall line thing to look forward to later

MPING report just came in for ZR in New Kent. Def marching west

It’s pretty bad. The snow stuck immediately and now it’s all compressed down.

Just drove from east end to west end and roads are in bad shape

18Z NAM is a best case scenario for RVA with ice. Cant see FRAM but QPF is .3 west end to .7 east end. Has less QPF tomorrow afternoon when other models have more falling as ZR. Edit: although freezing drizzle could add up fast

Models look to be targeting the east end of the metro for the worst of the ice. That is .50-.75" of FRAM accretion in the blue. Matches up with other models.

Quite the language from Wakefield: KEY MESSAGES... 1) A devastating winter storm for a large portion of the area will impact the region Saturday afternoon/evening through Sunday night with snow, sleet, freezing rain, and rain expected. These amounts of the combined wintry precip will lead to devastating impacts and widespread power outages and tree damage. Very cold temperatures and windy conditions early next week will lead to long last impacts.

The storm ice totals remain relatively similar to the previous forecast with the highest amounts of up to 0.75" of ice across the south central to Richmond metro areas in addition to 2 to 5 inches of snow/sleet. There has been a slight shift in favoring sleet rather than freezing rain for the far northern counties, but ice totals up to 0.5" of ice is expected, on top of the 4 to 7 inches of snow/sleet. The precip will likely end as another batch of light snow before moving away from the area. These amounts of the combined wintry precip will lead to devastating impacts and widespread power outages and tree damage. Very cold temperatures and windy conditions early next week will lead to long last impacts.

.A devastating winter storm for a large portion of the area will impact the region Saturday afternoon/evening through Sunday night with snow, sleet, freezing rain, and rain expected.