Richmond Snowfall Update

Officially at Richmond International Airport, 6.6" of snowfall accumulated Friday and Saturday. Here's the breakdown:
Friday, February 5, 2010: 2.5"
Saturday, February 6, 2010: 4.1" (Record)

This puts the season's snowfall to date at 24.7", more than doubling our average Winter snowfall for Richmond!

But this is still well below the all-time record snowfall in a single season for Richmond:

The Winter of 1979-80 was a close second at 38.6" for the season.

Snow Totals So Far

The highest snowfall totals occurred from around D.C. to Baltimore:
Elkridge, MD 38.3"
Frostburg, MD 36.0"
Crofton, MD 34.0"
Essex, MD 30.4"
Bethesda, MD 27.0"
Baltimore-Washington Intl, MD 26.5"
Baltimore City 26.0"

Update 3:30PM Saturday

A band of heavy snow is moving south through Central Virginia at this time, currently stretching from northwest of Stevensville, through Doswell, to Louisa. This band will move through the Metro in the next hour. The overall trend of this storm, however, is to be winding down as the surface low tracks to the east in the Atlantic away from the Mid-Atlantic. Can you make out the center of the low east of Virginia Beach?

Snow will continue ending from west to east in Virginia through the afternoon and evening. I expect all snow to be out of the state by 10 p.m.

Weather Update 12:15 PM

As I type this weather update at 12:05 PM, we have already received almost 3" of snow today in the West End. We will see periods of snow for the rest of the afternoon and into early this evening. Snow should taper from west to east between 7 to 10 PM. Today's snow totals will range from 3 to 6" across metro Richmond. Accumulations will be higher to the north and northeast, where today's totals will reach 6 to 12".