Winter Storm Hits

It started slow around 6pm. That's when the first shot was taken. After that it really took off. This is probably worse then any of the storms last year. Those were mostly over night. This one hit right at rush hour. And rush hour was anything but a rush. It took people hours upon hours to just get out of the district.

Here's an assessment of what was going on in some areas last night from one of the Capital Weather Gang from the Post:

8:10 pm: A very impressive band of snow with rates of 1-2" in an hour has been raking eastern Montgomery county, northwest D.C. and northern Prince George's county. This band should move off in the next hour. Still, moderate snow will continue after that and snow may not finally taper off until between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. from southwest to northeast across the region. With rapidly developing low pressure systems, the snow sometimes continues longer than modeled. This happened with the Snoverkill storm last year on February 10-11. The longer duration means high end totals, particularly west of the city.