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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Upping the snow forecast...slightly

Looked at fresh model data just now, and it shows the system not moving as quickly as shown in previous model runs. This would tack on a few more hours of snowfall (tapering off after 10am rather than 7am originally), and with a slight shift north again in the storm track, I am upping my snow forecast for metro Richmond and surrounding counties to about 4-6", but not going quite as high as others, taking into account some short range models tend to have a wet bias, which leads to going overboard with snow totals for winter storms.
Southeast Virginia (Emporia over to Norfolk/Hampton Roads) will hit the jackpot with just shy of a foot possible there. As you go northwest of Richmond, if you draw a line from Tappahannock to Ruther Glen to Louisa, areas along that line and northward should stay on the light side, a dusting to 2" at the most.

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