yoda Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 1 minute ago, 87storms said: When does the wind arrive? Gusts to 60 in the forecast here tomorrow lol Sunrise i think? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb@MAWS Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 5 minutes ago, Solution Man said: What’s it like living in the future? Fixed. Caught flu at midnight from sick grandson. Up all night. Been sleeping all day. What day it is … is rather irrelevant to me at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 2 minutes ago, 87storms said: When does the wind arrive? Gusts to 60 in the forecast here tomorrow lol For Frederick? About 3AM. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago @WxUSAF I believe the afternoon AFD from LWX answers your question from earlier re extreme cold warning in the metros Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC 309 PM EST Fri Feb 6 2026 .WHAT HAS CHANGED... A few additional expansion of Cold Weather and Wind Advisories to cover the rest of the central VA Piedmont. Low Water Advisories also issued for likely impactful blowout tide Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. && .KEY MESSAGES... - 1) Dangerous, life-threatening cold conditions and damaging winds Saturday. - 2) Near-Blizzard conditions expected in the Alleghenies late this morning through Saturday morning. - 3) A warming trend in temperatures is expected early next week, with a chance for mixed precipitation following on Wednesday. && .DISCUSSION... KEY MESSAGE 1...Dangerous, life-threatening cold conditions and damaging winds Saturday. There is extremely high confidence in a prolonged period of dangerous, life-threatening wind chills (paired with strong to damaging winds) across the area Saturday morning through Sunday morning. Extreme Cold Warnings and Cold Weather Advisories are in place across the entire forecast area from tonight through Sunday morning. A strong low pressure system located offshore paired with arctic high pressure moving in from Canada that yields a very tight pressure gradient across the area. A strengthening LLJ at 850-925mb that crosses the area Saturday morning will support the mixing of stronger winds down to the surface. A sudden onset of strong winds is expected right as the Arctic front passes through, which looks to be between 1AM to 6AM from northwest to southeast. Winds are going to rapidly increase from 5-10 mph to gusting 30-40 mph in tens of minutes, with gusts of 50-60 mph mixed in there. Wind gusts then remain steady at 45-55 mph through Saturday evening, with embedded gusts of 60-70 mph at times (higher gusts possible in the mountains). The High Wind Warnings and Wind Advisories remain in effect through Saturday evening for the entire area. Wind chills are forecast to crash below zero by daybreak Saturday, and remain below zero through at least late Sunday morning. For the Alleghenies and Blue Ridge wind chills bottom out between -20F to -30F, and possibly as cold as -40F at Spruce Knob. Elsewhere, wind chills as low as -10F to -20F are expected. This is only the second Extreme Cold Warning (along with its predecessor - Wind Chill Warning) issued for the immediate DC and Baltimore metro areas (as far back as WWA records go). The current forecast has between 24-30 hours of wind chills below zero over most of the area from Saturday early morning to Sunday late morning. It has been over 30 years since this area has observed this long a period of sub-zero wind chills, last occurring on January 15-16, 1994 (when wind chills below zero lasted upwards of 30-36 hours). Cannot stress enough the impact these wind chills and strong to damaging winds will have. Tree and powerlines damage is possible. Any power outages might last several days as crews will not be able to repair infrastructure until winds and wind chills decrease on Sunday. Anyone without proper clothing will be at risk of frostbite in as little as 30 minutes, with less time in the mountains where lower wind chills are expected. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Man Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 2 minutes ago, Herb@MAWS said: Fixed. Caught flu at midnight from sick grandson. Up all night. Been sleeping all day. What day it is … is rather irrelevant to me at this point. Get well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Richmond got a WWA? We suck lol Expecting to at least see some flurries in a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevWarReenactor Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Literally saw abut 10 flakes under a heavy band. Now its over. They let Harford County schools go 3 hours early for this LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bncho Posted 3 hours ago Author Share Posted 3 hours ago light-mod snow in Annandale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago -SN here in West Springfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDSnow93 Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Light snow for the last 20 minutes in Germantown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weather Will Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Light snow; fresh dusting on deck/lawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeesburgWx Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Dumping snow here. Official coating on everything. Old snow is freshened up! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87storms Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Dusting achieved here and can’t see the Catoctins. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bncho Posted 3 hours ago Author Share Posted 3 hours ago legit mod snow now, some dendrites attempting to mix in 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Ground is whitening. Might squeeze out something measurable. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Light snow first observed 4:06 pn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Incredibly strong wording by LWX about the wind and cold tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Light snow here in the District of Columbia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Steady light snow in N. Bethesda. Grill is getting white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Flurries at Union Station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Oh, hey, -SN... maybe --SN. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleocene Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago super light snow/flurries in silver spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Man Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 8 minutes ago, stormtracker said: Light snow here in the District of Columbia Are you counting all the Flakes in D.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Just now, Solution Man said: Are you counting all the Flakes in D.C. I'd be reporting 1 to 2 feet if I did. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konksw Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago It’s a pretty snow falling here in DC. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathervswife Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 1” here just SE of CHO. Reports of 3” between here and RIC. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeesburgWx Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 29 minutes ago, yoda said: @WxUSAF I believe the afternoon AFD from LWX answers your question from earlier re extreme cold warning in the metros Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC 309 PM EST Fri Feb 6 2026 .WHAT HAS CHANGED... A few additional expansion of Cold Weather and Wind Advisories to cover the rest of the central VA Piedmont. Low Water Advisories also issued for likely impactful blowout tide Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. && .KEY MESSAGES... - 1) Dangerous, life-threatening cold conditions and damaging winds Saturday. - 2) Near-Blizzard conditions expected in the Alleghenies late this morning through Saturday morning. - 3) A warming trend in temperatures is expected early next week, with a chance for mixed precipitation following on Wednesday. && .DISCUSSION... KEY MESSAGE 1...Dangerous, life-threatening cold conditions and damaging winds Saturday. There is extremely high confidence in a prolonged period of dangerous, life-threatening wind chills (paired with strong to damaging winds) across the area Saturday morning through Sunday morning. Extreme Cold Warnings and Cold Weather Advisories are in place across the entire forecast area from tonight through Sunday morning. A strong low pressure system located offshore paired with arctic high pressure moving in from Canada that yields a very tight pressure gradient across the area. A strengthening LLJ at 850-925mb that crosses the area Saturday morning will support the mixing of stronger winds down to the surface. A sudden onset of strong winds is expected right as the Arctic front passes through, which looks to be between 1AM to 6AM from northwest to southeast. Winds are going to rapidly increase from 5-10 mph to gusting 30-40 mph in tens of minutes, with gusts of 50-60 mph mixed in there. Wind gusts then remain steady at 45-55 mph through Saturday evening, with embedded gusts of 60-70 mph at times (higher gusts possible in the mountains). The High Wind Warnings and Wind Advisories remain in effect through Saturday evening for the entire area. Wind chills are forecast to crash below zero by daybreak Saturday, and remain below zero through at least late Sunday morning. For the Alleghenies and Blue Ridge wind chills bottom out between -20F to -30F, and possibly as cold as -40F at Spruce Knob. Elsewhere, wind chills as low as -10F to -20F are expected. This is only the second Extreme Cold Warning (along with its predecessor - Wind Chill Warning) issued for the immediate DC and Baltimore metro areas (as far back as WWA records go). The current forecast has between 24-30 hours of wind chills below zero over most of the area from Saturday early morning to Sunday late morning. It has been over 30 years since this area has observed this long a period of sub-zero wind chills, last occurring on January 15-16, 1994 (when wind chills below zero lasted upwards of 30-36 hours). Cannot stress enough the impact these wind chills and strong to damaging winds will have. Tree and powerlines damage is possible. Any power outages might last several days as crews will not be able to repair infrastructure until winds and wind chills decrease on Sunday. Anyone without proper clothing will be at risk of frostbite in as little as 30 minutes, with less time in the mountains where lower wind chills are expected. Intense AF. Love write ups like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago I am sure the forecast for strong winds is correct but note they occur because of the offshore development, right now the north wind behind the cold front in Ontario is only 20-30 mph. Temperature does drop very quickly with the front which is now about one-third of the way through Lake Huron (and halfway through Georgian Bay). It should go through Toronto around 7 p.m. EST and then it accelerates because it is racing to catch up to the offshore low starting to develop tonight. There was never much of a warm sector once this system left the plains states and prairies. Temperatures are not even going to spike at all ahead of this front now. With a light SW wind Buffalo NY is only 22 F. Moderate northerly at Sudbury ON and -4 F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 26 light snow. Driveway caved 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Back in Reisterstown. Nada. I'm desperate for everything to get freshened up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now