Maryland Snow Totals By Town For Bomb Cyclone Jan 4

BALTIMORE, MD — The snow totals are starting to come in Thursday for Maryland from the National Weather Service, which received unofficial data from its employees as well as emergency management personnel, trained spotters and media. As of 8:30 a.m. two locations in St. Marys County reported the highest accumulation in the state with just over 5 inches of snow measured there, according to the weather service. On the low end, Montgomery County reports half an inch and nine-tenths of an inch of snow was measured at BWI Airport.

Snowfall amounts in the Baltimore-Washington region should top out between 1 and 3 inches, but whatever falls will stick around for a bit. Much of Maryland is under a winter weather advisory until 11 a.m. Thursday, then a wind chill advisory starts at 10 p.m. Thursday and runs through noon Friday, Jan. 5. Wind chills should range from zero to 10 degrees below zero late Thursday night through Friday morning.

The cold wind chills will cause frostbite in as little as 30 minutes to exposed skin, the weather service says. A Wind Chill Advisory means that cold air and the wind will combine to create low wind chills. Frost bite and hypothermia can occur if precautions are not taken. Make sure you wear a hat and gloves.

Weather officials warned of the possibility of ice, particularly around parking lots, sidewalks, bridges, overpasses and elevated roads. Drivers were advised to slow down and give themselves extra time.

The Maryland State Police has implemented a snow emergency plan in thesecounties: Montgomery, Queen Anne’s, Kent, Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester, Calvert, St. Mary’s, Wicomico, Worcester, Somerset and Charles.
The plan requires all vehicles on the road to have snow chains or snow tires on both driving wheels of vehicles. Drivers are not allowed to park on any highway marked as a snow emergency route where a snow emergency is in effect; vehicles parked on snow emergency routes may be towed.

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Here are the tallies from the National Weather Service:

Anne Arundel County

• Crownsville, 2.3 inches
• Crofton, 2.1 inches
• Annapolis, 2.0 inches
• Odenton, 1.8 inches
• BWI Airport, 0.9 inches

• Dowell, 4.0 inches

• Keysville, 0.3 inches

• Hughesville, 3.8 inches
• Waldorf, 2.8 inches
• Ripley, 1.5 inches

• Columbia, 1.0 inches
• Columbia, 0.6 inches

• Takoma Park, 0.5 inches
• Norbeck, 0.5 inches

• Ridge, 5.5 inches
• Callaway, 5.2 inches
• California, 4.0 inches

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