Accumulating Snow to Start Early Thursday: Here's How Much

Gas up the car, fill up the fridge and prepare to shovel again: The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch for parts of Maryland, including Anne Arundel County, beginning Wednesday at 7 p.m. and lasting until Thursday at 7 p.m.

(This is a new watch, different than the Winter Weather Advisory in effect until 10 p.m. Tuesday, expected to continue to bring sleet and freezing rain to the area.)

The new storm system is expected to deliver 5 inches of snow to the area and is moving in from the Southwest, from the Tennessee Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and then pushing up to just south of New England.

Cities included in the winter storm watch are Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Annapolis, Germantown, Rockville, Columbia and Ellicott City.

Under this new watch, Anne Arundel County will see rain change to snow Wednesday night. Snowfall may be heavy at times Wednesday night into Thursday morning, forecasters say.

A snow/sleet mix will switch to all snow after 8 a.m. on Thursday, the Weather Servicesays, with snow ending by 8 p.m. Thursday.

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