12/31-1/1 Possible Snow Showers/Squalls to Start 2026

[GreyHat]

Woke up to a nice dusting here as well. Happy New Year 

[mappy]

Snow

[nj2va]

Glad to read the reports of the squall!

Currently 9 degrees and a bluebird day with 8-9” of fresh powder.

Happy 2026 yall!

[clskinsfan]

6 hours ago, Wxtrix said:

phone wx alert about an hour ago woke us up, then the squall woke us up when the power briefly went out. everything is covered. 

it was pretty impressive with nearly whiteout conditions.

 

It was nice to get that alert. I jumped up and watched us get absolutely demolished. Then right back to sleep.

[WEATHER53]

Nice coating everywhere

one full shade spot still has a “drift”  29F

 

[Wxtrix]

49 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

It was nice to get that alert. I jumped up and watched us get absolutely demolished. Then right back to sleep.

the first one was about 45-60 minutes before the line came through and the second one was after we'd settled back to sleep after the squall, lol.

 

Martinsburg gusted to 43.

[mappy]

Cleaned up driveway and a good .25 in sheltered spots 

[J.Mike]

It only snowed on my frozen pond. Weird.

[MillvilleWx]

Got woken up to the squalls moving through early this morning. Absolutely smoked. Shook the house. The snow coated everything in an inch of its life. A great start to 2026 imo. 
 

Kudos to the hi-res that were on this potential from 36-48 hrs out. This was a strong axis of PVA coupled with impressive PBL dynamics. One thing I learned many years ago with talking to Bernie Rayno at the AMS Conference in Phoenix in 2015, while drinking and nerding out over winter weather….fresh injections of Arctic air tend to bring fresh coatings of white in their paths. This was no different.  
 

Happy to see all the cool reports and for some of these pics out of Western MD depicting a winter wonderland @nj2va

Happy New Year everyone. Let’s bring home a good winter after a solid start for most.