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THUNDERSNOW IN WASHINGTON!

Heavy snow is starting in Washington at this hour and a thunderstorm is also in progress! A flash-back to the Blizzard of ’93 when Birmingham had thunder and lightning in the middle of the night during some of the heaviest snow. Remember the grennish hue?
The Washington snow part of that deep low pressure area that sort of passed us by last night. The very intense low was centered at 4 pm, CST, just off the Virginia Coast.

It will spell trouble for not only the Mid Atlantic Coast but also all the way to New England.

Here is the current forecast for Washington, D.C

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-ARLINGTON/FALLS CHURCH/ALEXANDRIA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…WASHINGTON…ALEXANDRIA…FALLS CHURCH
418 PM EST WED JAN 26 2011

…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST THURSDAY…

.REST OF THIS AFTERNOON…SNOW WITH POSSIBLE SLEET AND
THUNDERSTORMS. SNOW MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES. SNOW AND SLEET
ACCUMULATION AROUND AN INCH. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION NEAR 100 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT…SNOW…MAINLY IN THE EVENING. SNOW MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES
IN THE EVENING. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 4 TO 8 INCHES. LOWS IN
THE MID 20S. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW NEAR
100 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. SOUTHWEST
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH IN THE EVENING…BECOMING LIGHT AND VARIABLE.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE MORNING…THEN A
CHANCE OF RAIN OR SNOW IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.
SOUTH WINDS AROUND 5 MPH…BECOMING WEST IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 40.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS 15 TO 20.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
.TUESDAY…CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.

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