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Flurries, borderline Light Snow, in Downtown Washington DC

The gradient even within the inner and outer (if-they-formally existed) Beltways could also be interesting. But frankly, in all my years of living in Washington, there have not been a lot of times where I lived downtown and was super jealous because someone in middle or lower Montgomery County or Fairfax County got a lot more snow than I did. There was a big storm around 2004 where DC got like 4 inches of snow and Columbia in Howard County got like 24 inches. There was also that March bust storm a few years ago where DC got almost nothing while parts of Fairfax may have gotten 6 inches. But those seem rather rare, lately, in part because may the suburbs are becoming denser and warmer too. DC versus upper Montgomery/Frederick/Carroll/Loudoun/Northern Baltimore County is a different situation.

I agree. For anyone who lives near the city, March snows are just blah. No, I am not going to rehash the sun angle debate, but I also prefer snow that covers the streets for at least day or so, doesn’t melt from lawns the next day, and doesn’t lead to even more stress than usual given higher potential for major busts, as was case in that big March bust in 2013.

Light sleet has now transitioned to mostly light rain downtown DC

Steady flurries downtown dc

Dusting but still Busting downtown DC. But think this might be the biggest dusting so far In this tragic winter here, since colder this time than during the two previous bursts of flurries....

I think the really bad commute was January 2011, when about 5 inches of snow fell from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., on a day when I don't think there was an OPM early dismissal

Prince William Schools closed tomorrow — lol

Officially a Car topper in downtown DC. But Streets and sidewalk just wet

New York City itself busted hard. Upton was forecasting 7; looks like city got 2 to 4.

Yea, but at least in those cases D.C. usually has white rain or another form of mix, sleet or non accumulating snow. In this case, absolutely zero wintry precipitation of any kind in city. And You could tell this morning it was too warm in city, and that you’d have to travel far, far outside the beltway for that to change. I guess occasionally you see nothing but a driving rain downtown while Rockville gets 5 inches but I really can’t think of that many times where it plays out like that.

No precipitation yet downtown dc. People walking around with spring jackets on. Really doesn’t seem like accumulating snow is possible even up at end of the Red line (Shady Grove) but good luck

Surprised to go outside just now to discover, even in Downtwon D.C., there is still some ice building up on trees and elevated metal surfaces

Wow. Snowfall rates downtown dc right now.

Downtown DC just flipped back to snow. Huge flakes in this band.

Anyone know what DCA has? At this point, the goal of DC region should be to try to stay #1 in the snowiest East Coast big city competition. Will be hard to stay ahead of Boston as we head into March, but perhaps NYC and Philly remain beatable

Doug Kammerer from NBC 4 reports the change over to sleet has occurred at his house in Bethesda..

Really lightening up downtown. Looks like 2 inches. Roads caved earlier but salted streets now quickly melting.

I’m estimating about 1.5 inches has fallen downtown

LWX just tweeted that the sleet line is rapidly advancing north

Light snow started about 15 min ago Downtown DC. Not accumulating yet.

I actually think last-minute forecast semantics in a storm like this a bit ridiculous. Fact is most nornal people really don’t differentiate between 2 and up to 5. Less than 2 they would consider a bust. More than 5 they would consider surprising but not end of world considering it will be raining by late afternon. More than 8 would start to be viewed as upward bust.

Toppper on Channel 9 DC now just going with 1 to 3 in DC Metro and Baltimore, with 3 to 5 north and west. He cites “sleet” as reason he’s lowering totals..

Anyone know where I can find the data on the greatest one-hour snowfall accumulation at DCA, Dulles and BWI.. Or if they even keep that data/record?

Still seems to be all snow downtown dc