Northern Virginia, DC Snow Totals By Town For Bomb Cyclone Jan 4

WASHINGTON, DC — The snow totals are starting to come in Thursday for Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia 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. snow ranged from a trace to 1.5 inches in Northern Virginia, according to the weather service. On the low end, a tenth of an inch of snow was measured at Dulles Airport, while 1.5 inches in the Rose Hill area of Fairfax was the largest measurement.

Snowfall amounts in the Baltimore-Washington region should top out between 1 and 3 inches, but whatever falls will stick around for a bit. The District and northern Virginia are 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.

Meanwhile, the Hampton Roads area is in the midst of a blizzard as the storm, which forecasters are calling a "bomb cyclone," moves over the Norfolk-Virginia Beach region. A blizzard warning is in effect there until 1 p.m. Thursday with another 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. "Travel will be very dangerous to impossible," the National Weather Service says. "Winds gusting as high as 50 mph will cause whiteout conditions in blowing snow. Significant drifting of the snow is likely."

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Here are the tallies from the National Weather Service:

District of Columbia

• Washington, 0.8 inches
• National Zoo, 0.6 inches

Arlington County

• Reagan National Airport, 0.8 inches

City Of Alexandria County

• Alexandria, 0.4 inches

City of Alexandria

• Alexandria, 1.0 inches

City Of Falls Church County

• Falls Church, 0.6 inches

Fairfax County

• Rose Hill, 1.5 inches
• Vienna, 1.0 inches
• Tysons Corner, 0.8 inches
• Mount Vernon, 0.8 inches
• Chantilly, 0.6 inches
• Herndon, 0.6 inches
• Herndon, 0.5 inches
• Chantilly, 0.5 inches
• Franconia, 0.5 inches

Loudoun County

• Dulles International, 0.1 inches

Orange County

• Verdiersville, 0.4 inches

Virginia State Police continue to ask drivers to stay off the highways as VDOT crews continue to treat and clear highways across Southside Virginia, Hampton Roads, the Eastern Shore, Tidewater, Middle Peninsula, Northern Neck and Metro-Richmond regions. Troopers in these areas have remained busy over the past 12 hours responding to 466 total emergency calls for service, which include s226 traffic crashes and 171 disabled vehicles. There continue to be no reported traffic fatalities, and the majority of traffic crashes have only involved damage to vehicles, the state police said in a news release.

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Photo by the National Weather Service