Ice A Danger Tuesday & Wednesday

After the snowfall, ice has become the primary concern for Tuesday and Wednesday in Central Virginia. As evidenced by this photograph taken this morning by viewer Ed in Rawlings, VA, icicles have formed on eaves of houses, trees, and power lines. Please be aware of these icicles.

Also, black ice continues to be a problem on many roads, as temperatures plunged into the low teens Tuesday morning, and remained there through mid-morning. Highs today will remain below freezing in much of Central Virginia Tuesday, and temperatures are expected to drop into the teens again Wednesday morning. Any snow that does melt or become slush today will refreeze again overnight, meaning round two of the black ice Wednesday morning.

--Carrie

OFFICIAL: Record Low 11 at RIC

The official report is hot off the presses from the Richmond International Airport with a new record low for March 3rd of 11 degrees. This temperature occurred at 6:48 a.m. Tuesday, which broke the old record low for this date of 14 degrees from 1925.
--Carrie

Virginia Snow Visible From Space

The snow still blanketing much of the Commonwealth Tuesday morning is visible from space. We have clear skies across the region, which is allowing an unobstructed view to the surface from space of the snow-covered ground. Below is a snapshot from this morning taken at 8:45 a.m., from the government aviation weather page. The dark grey in the image is ground that is not snow-covered, whereas the white you see on land is snowfall from the March 1-2, 2009 snowstorm from the Deep South through the Northeast. The white you see off-shore in the Atlantic is cloud cover from the exiting storm.

--Carrie--