National Weather Service Issues Alert for DC Metro Area

IMAGE: National Weather Service map of area, in purple, under Winter Weather Advisory beginning Sunday at 7 a.m. Map updated by NWS at 4:07 p.m. Saturday.

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Get ready for a slippery Sunday, Georgetown: The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the entire DC metro area that goes into effect Sunday at 7 a.m. and continues until Monday at 3 a.m.

The advisory is for a winter’s brew of snow, sleet and freezing rain. The weather service advisory covers the entire DC metro region.

The NWS expects accumulations of a coating to 1 inch of snow and sleet across the region. Suburbs to the north and west of DC could see more: 1-3 inches of snow and sleet.

The area could see 1/10th of an inch of ice on the roadways and sidewalks, the weather service says.

The timing of the wintry mix:

• Snow is expected to start falling between 7-10 a.m. on Sunday morning.
• Snow will eventually change over to sleet and freezing rain, probably between noon and 3 p.m., the weather forecasters say.
• The DC metro region could see sleet as early as 6-8 a.m., the Capital Weather Gang notes.
• The precipitation is expected to end as freezing rain Sunday night, according to the weather service.

The National Weather Service says that roads will be covered in snow and ice Sunday and Sunday night, warning that “traveling will be dangerous at this time.”

Temperatures on Sunday are expected to rise through the 20s in the morning and into the low to mid-30s by the afternoon into Sunday night, the weather forecasters say.

The high on Monday is expected to hit 43 degrees across the area, according to the National Weather Service.