school tomarrow in moco?

This is AWESOME news for us students. YAY. I will bet you all the money in the world and a camper that everyone in that warning will be closed tomorrow provided the temps don't creep above freezing.

I just hope the power doesn't go out. It has blipped a few times. I know that everything is covered in a sheet of ice in Lake Ridge and the sirens haven't stopped running since the freezing rain started 4 hours ago...

Yeah, its slick out there. I just slipped on my deck in Spotsy.

Be careful folks.

The sidewalk is solid ice, the foot bridges are solid ice, cars are encased as well as trees and polls. The grass is frozen solid except for the tippy tops of the blades, one of the strangest things I've ever seen. Parking lot is just wet that I could tell, even next to the curbs it was just wet. Strange.

Just drove through NW DC and Bethesda. Roads mostly just wet in the District. Main roads not too bad in Bethesda, but side roads a bit icy, and parking areas and sidewalks very icy.

Where are you, weatherdudeVA?

has anyone seen the this? WOW. Talk about overdoing it. Hopefully not for us snowlovers :)
http://wxcaster4.com/gfs/CONUS2_GFS0P5_SFC_ACCUM-SNOW_48HR.gif

Everyone "think snow", lets hope 00z models are our friends for tomorrow night.

Costal Storms often are interesting and difficult to forecast. Occasionaly, they bring us suprises both good and bad.

Over the past 3-4 days. GFS continues to hold a coastal development tomorrow. 18z run is now showing higher confidence in a snow event tomorrow night.

wow...stay off the roads. Multiple accidents/roads closed here around Manassas.

Will you guys be listing a "School Cast"....You know...the Apple indicator on your thoughts of school delay/cancellation?

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!

Sorry.

Just drove home (downtown DC) from Rockville. Traffic is in general very very bad. Saw four spinouts on the GW parkway between the beltway and Key Bridge. Nearly spun out myself on the Whitehurst Freeway. It's not slippery all over, but there are patches that can come up on you without warning. Also saw several pedestrians fall while I was looking for a place to park. Be careful!

MARYLAND POLLS WILL CLOSE AT 9:30PM because of the ice storm

Model Monkey...Lake Ridge VA

WOW ccwx, that's exciting! LOL

My mom absolutely HATES me right now, because she doesn't like winter weather and I'm loving it...:)

...MARYLAND HAS EXTENDED VOTING HOURS UNTIL 930 DUE TO THE ICE STORM...

MD polls being held open an extra 90 minutes until 9:30 pm due to weather.

MOCO BETTER CLOSE!

ccwx...Maybe their underdoing it.....:)

Guys tonight might be the "calm" of tomorow night.

Funny, I am actually getting my hopes up for tomorrow. Especially when I heard some Cap members talking about possible accumulation. I have a feeling they are remaining conservative at this point because its a complicated event just now developing. I am sure there may be a couple scenerios begining to develop on possible tracks and devlopment of the low. I bet one of them brings us a big snow storm.

If MoCo doesn't delay/close, I swear to you... it's gonna be hell on my bus tomorrow.

I'm still thinking that there will be school tomorrow at least in areas near D.C. You never know!

Well, I hope that I know that we won't have school, but I might jinx it if I say that we won't so we will. =pp

What are the possibilities of a major (1/4) amount of ice actually accumulating?

ARGH. I am supposed to leave for the Daytona 500 tomorrow moning, and am driving down. (easier to transport the, er, beverages that way :).

Any idea what time it might be safe to consider heading out? I had planned on leaving at 7...but it looks like there might still be ice at that point.

Some weather-geekery: Classic cold-air damming has taken shape across the region:

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/sfc_bwi.gif

Note the northerly flow that has developed over the last few hours across the area. That will help reinforce the subfreezing air during the next few hours, but >32F air is making inroads near the Bay and on the eastern shore. A lot easier to analyze than forecast!

Just walked...slid..out onto the deck. Trees are covered. The car that had been thawed off the roof of the Vienna metro is frozen again. What can we expect in the AM?

The infamous look of ice on bare branches is beginning to appear in Bethesda. Slid on my sidewalk while walking my dog for the final time today. My side street was still just wet though.

I can't see any ice, but it is slick as anything out there.

temperatures slowly but surely rising here in NWDC, up from 26 to 28. hoping that this trend will not continue, but know it will.

Commute home from DC to Herndon - 2.5 hours

Treacherous conditions.

I hate winter.

Icicles forming. Grass caked over in ice.

How can you people be rooting for an ice storm? This is dangerous stuff. I'm glad you want peoples lives in danger so you can get out of school.

Is this coastal that may develop tomorrow likely to be significant? I have to be in court at 9:00 AM on Thursday, and worried about getting there.

I know the cwg are posting their thoughts on school for tomorrow at 11:00, but what are everyone else's thoughts?

Power just went out..

Sorry!

I'm just holding my breath...

You've got me nervous now!

Southside FFX: C'mon, I think you can make your point without painting anyone with the darkest possible brush. No one wants people's lives in danger - you can remind kids that this is serious stuff without lowering yourself to levels that bother you in others. Play nice? :-D

Another classic example of underforecast cold-air damming. This lack of accuracy in the computer models, with cold air trapped in the lower boundary layer east of the mountains, and the inability of warm air aloft to dislodge it, is notorious here in the D.C. area. This time, though, it could have serious consequences......this is potentially a very dangerous situation setting up tonight. I hope nobody loses their power......or worse.

Attempted to walk to back entrance of NIH in Bethesda at 8pm and had to give up because all the sidewalks were completely iced over. Instead opted to walk on the main path to metro that was treated. I thought I could overcome the icy sidewalks and walk on the grass - which is very difficult to do because you have to cross sidewalks to reach more grass.

Met some non-icy sidewalks at WoodleyPark metro, much to my glee. Duke Ellington bridge was getting icy on sidewalks, but definitely still walkable when dragging feet.

Once I turned off Calvert/18th Street, things got progressively worse and at one point I was hanging on to a drain pipe looking for a way off the sidewalk.

I finally had to give up and walk on the road.

Be careful out there!! I completely underestimated how bad it was - and now I'm just happy to a home before it gets any worse!

According to Pepco, outages are currently confined to 2 zip codes in Northern MoCo and 2 zip codes in southern PG county.

shirley: I'm thinking at the very least a 2 hour delay for everyone getting ice in the ice warning right now, if the temperatures stay down there could be quite a few closings. But, I'm not the expert/decision maker, so that's just a biased opinion ;)

Southside FFX: I'm looking at this from a purely "snow day" point of view, I'm not rooting for accidents and injuries and stuff! Just a snow day!

I have 2 candles burning and the down duvet here on the couch just in case as I watch the Westminister Dog Show. LOL.

Mike...any guesses on if this will be an all night ice event, or will it warm and turn to just rain at some point?

Southside - Agree with you. It's treacherous out there and incredibly unsafe. I wouldn't wish an ice storm on anyone.

Southside FFX: I know you know that we don't want anybody to get hurt.

tjd- Glad to hear you're safe. Hope everyone else is to!

It's just nice to have a free day once in a while ya know? You just can't control the weather so what happens happens.

And Ivan,
Who specifically did we wish an "ice storm" on?

Looks like we need not worry anyway because those temps are on their way up, regardless of any cold air damming. The cold just isn't strong enough to hang on.

Period: There's always tomorrow night ;)

All, I think ssFFX was probably referring to this comment:

temperatures slowly but surely rising here in NWDC, up from 26 to 28. hoping that this trend will not continue, but know it will. - thejesse2442

As mentioned, ice is dangerous not only for travel but for infrastructure and power. Let's hope for everyone's sake the trend DOES continue. Now tomorrow night, let it be as cold as it wants ;)

DCA has gone to light rain

>b>SPECI KDCA 130213Z 02007KT 6SM -RA OVC007 00/M03 A3007 RMK AO2 RAB12FZRAE12 P0001

Power outages spreading into DC and western Moco. Luckily, all zip codes still have less than 100 people out though.

About 3mm of ice on metal surfaces and 31 degrees in west Arlington. Streets just wet, but bridges slick as doo doo.

my bad about that comment, im sorry if that came off as brutish and rude. i didnt mean it to be that way at all. I'm just hoping for a snow day, which isnt going to happen, and do not mean harm on anyone and I hope that no one takes it that way. sorry, jesse

None of our regular posters here, including Southside FFX, thejesse2442 and all the rest too numerous to mention, ever means to be brutish or rude. We get nervous and irritable from crazy dangerous storms like this one, which is understandable.

some of my colleagues reported earlier (around 8) that major accident(s) have closed 395S. they were waiting it out downtown.

Temperature holding steady (rising slowly?) around 27 here in Loudoun. Got bold enough to venture outside, and made it a foot out of my door before sliding and landing on my backside. Ouch. A smooth, solid, and slippery 1 or two tenths of an inch of ice on the sidewalk here. Also heard tires screeching (on ice!?) on the road behind the house. Be careful, all, if you must go outside or drive tonight or tomorrow morning!!!!

30 and slight drizzle in Vienna

30.8 in bethesda. Nothing at the moment.

wtop radio weatherbug station is steady at around 28.4-28.6 all of my closer thermometers about that same. i went outside, couldnt tell if it was doing anything. concrete was mainly just wet, just a little ice on the tips of the stairs. hope everyone is doing fine out there. for whoever is with out power, my thoughts go out to you.

Power still on in East Silver Spring. Wife sick, my legs hurting even before I fell. I want the temperatures to go above 32 NOW.

In Germantown / Boyds, my sidewalk is one solid sheet of ice. Can't imagine anybody getting around, much less driving on this. Seriously doubt schools would be opening on time in MoCo tomorrow -- a delay is almost certain, closure is a possibility.

I think all MD schools will get 2 hour delays. Aleganny already got a 2 hour delay and that is where the heaviest Precip. fell.

:-(

My thermometer is at right about 32 degrees and it has been going up all the while.

Isn't Allegheny in the mountains so they are better prepared?

I guess if it's ice, no one is really that prepared!

It doesn't make any sense to call off school or give delays yet. There's more precip on the way, and if that happens to be rain, Allegheny will look pretty dumb (although they have about 25 snow days a year right? =]).

Kim of Manassas, that answer is a tough one, but I wouldn't bet on the warm air aloft pushing out this sub-freezing boundary layer anytime soon. Keep your fingers crossed, the flashlights ready, and some nice blankets or a comforter on the bed in case you have a power outage and lose heat. An outage is not guaranteed but is certainly possible.

Mike,

That sub-freezing layer is holding on by about 2 degrees.

I was thinking...

The "Nice Day!" criteria should be changed from 65-85 degrees to 55-75 degrees. Here, at least in the Spring and Summer, with our tropical humidity (woo hoo South) 85 can be ridiculously hot.

Period: I concur.

Rain falling and 27 degrees at 10:40 p.m. in Manassas.

Just got another one of these....

The NWS reports Ice Storm Warning for Prince William County.
Description: ...ICE STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST WEDNESDAY... SEVERAL ROUNDS OF FREEZING RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE FROM SOUTHEAST TO NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND A QUARTER OF AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE BY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THIS MAY LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT TRAVEL PROBLEMS OVERNIGHT INTO THE RUSH HOUR OF WEDNESDAY MORNING. THESE AMOUNTS OF ICE COULD ALSO LEAD TO DOWNING OF TREES AND POWER LINES. AN ICE STORM WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL MAKE TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. TRAVEL IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT... FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY. ICE ACCUMULATIONS MAY LEAD TO SNAPPED POWER LINES AND FALLING TREE BRANCHES THAT ADD TO THE DANGER

rain is falling here in NWDC with a temperature of around 28.5-29 degrees. patiently awaiting capwx forecast. NWS scaled back there call for rain/snow tomarrow and likely snow tomarrow night to rain and rain/snow but in forecast discussion still suggest 1-3 inches of snow in CWA. looking forward to your input, jesse

Ok, I demand 2 Snow Lovers' Crystal Balls. One for DCPS, and one for everyone else. DCPS is notoriously bad for never cancelling or delaying. We haven't had a delay, early dismissal, or evening activities cancelled ALL YEAR LONG.

My prediction - EVERY single school at least two hours delay, some closed, with DCPS open on time.

It's true. DC is stingy, but it's always just a degree too warm there.

00z GFS not our friend for tomorrow night....:(

WHEN ARE YOU GUYS DOING THE SCHOOL CAST

I just sliced my finger open on the ice. Watch out for the embedded sleet pellets in the ice on the cars and the railings and stuff. Happens to me every year, LOL. The little bumps and sleet pellets in the ice are as sharp as razor blades. My stupidity I guess for going outside...

I have to go to bed in a few minutes because I have to ASSUME schools are going to be open on time. Gonna bum me out if I don't get to see the 11PM forecast.

Fox5 is running a thing right now about people being trapped in their cars for the last 7-8 hours on the ramps and mixing bowl and stuff. They're saying if you have a loved one that hasn't come home yet, call them and they'll tell you if they've been contacted with the status of your loved one.

Last time I heard them talking like that on the news was Katrina and 9/11. This is really REALLY serious...

A friend of mine who works in DC and lives in Woodbridge just made it home.....SIX HOURS after she left work. She said the mixing bowl is a nightmare.

No comments at all since 7 PM? No posts? Vhat giffs?

Heck, I swear that when I hit refresh it just showed the two comments from 7 last night. After I submitted, the rest of them appeared.