RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Snow is in the forecast, but should you get excited?
The newest weather models are showing a better picture of what will happen Friday night into early Saturday morning.
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The system that StormTracker8 meteorologists are tracking will be coming out of the Ohio Valley and moving into Virginia as we get into Friday evening and Friday night. The bulk of the system looks to be along and north of I-64 — but that doesn’t mean that’s where all the precipitation will be.
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It looks like rain will begin at the start for just about everybody — but as the system slides into Virginia, colder air will slide in from the north.
This will create a transition from rain to snow for areas to our north first and then that transition will slowly work its way south into Metro Richmond by the early morning hours on Saturday.
As the system moves into Virginia, we could have some very light rain begin between 9 and 11 p.m. as our temperatures will still be around 40 but slowly dropping into the 30s.
Right now, it looks like areas north of Ashland through Caroline County to DC and west out to Louisa through Northern Virginia will see the greatest amount of accumulating snow which looks to be on the order of 1”-3”.
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Areas to the north of Metro Richmond, like Ashland, western localities like Powhatan, Goochland, Buckingham and Cumberland counties, as well as eastern localities like King William, King and Queen counties and into the Northern Neck — these areas could see a dusting to an inch of snow. It could be more like a slushy inch of snow, as that transition time from rain to sleet and snow will take longer.
For areas south of Metro Richmond through Chesterfield County, the Tri-Cities and out to Amelia, Prince Edward and even Northern Dinwiddie Counties, the transition will take even longer — so it is conceivable that this will be mainly a cold rain with some snowflakes mixing in, which will not produce any accumulation at all.
This system will be a fast-mover, so it will quickly wrap up in the early morning hours on Saturday — most likely before sunrise — and be out of here by the time most of us are waking up.
The sunshine will return on Saturday, and it will be windy and chilly with highs in the middle 40s but that wind might make it feel more like the middle to upper 30s.
Source: https://t-tees.com
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