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March 26, 2011

An inch or two at worst

UPDATE, 7:15 a.m. SUNDAY: We haven't seen a flake out on the WeatherDeck in Cockeysville, but the NWS is reporting light snow in Anne Arundel, including Annapolis, in Washington, D.C., and even Westminster. The CoCoRaHS Network is reporting a bit of snow to our south, too. The entry from Waldorf, in Charles County, is scarcely believable. A typo? Should it read 0.5 inch? Can anyone confirm it?:

Waldorf:  5.0 inches

Parsonsburg, Wicomico County:  3.5 inches

Salisbury, Wicomico County:  3.0 inches

Leonardtown, St. Mary's Co.: 1.0 inch

Brandywine, PG Co.:  0.9 inch

Bryans Road, Charles Co.: 0.5 inch

Easton, Talbot Co.: 0.1 inch  

Here's a snow report from the National Weather Service. And a snow map. I'd say the pre-treatment of the roads Saturday around Baltimore (earlier report below) was wasted.

UPDATE at 9:20 p.m. Saturday, from Sun reporter Jonathan Pitts:  The State Highway Administration started pre-treating interstate highways in the Baltimore area, where they treated I-70, I-695 and I-95, this afternoon, according to Lora Rakowski, an administration spokeswoman. Crews will be staffing all SHA maintenance stops and deploying to their routes at midnight Saturday, Rakowski added, to begin salt application as precipitation was expected to begin.

Here's the snow forecast for Central Maryland for Saturday night into Sunday: Not to worry. Should be more of an early-spring curiosity than a winter storm.

The Winter Weather Advisory out today calls for 1 to 3 inches to our south, encompassing no more than Charles, St. Mary's and Calvert counties in Southern Maryland. (Southwestern Virginia will see more):

* TIMING...LATE TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. THE HEAVIEST SNOW IS
  EXPECTED EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.

* TEMPERATURES...LOWS TONIGHT IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S. HIGHS
  SUNDAY IN THE UPPER 30S TO LOWER 40S.

* WINDS...NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH BECOMING NORTH SUNDAY
  AFTERNOON.

Farther north, the National Weather Service is calling for about an inch. Here's the forecast map. Click to enlarge:

Posted by Frank Roylance at 2:58 PM | | Comments (3)
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Comments

Between 7:30 and 8 am Sunday morning a few flakes straggled down here in Glen Burnie, but sun coming through broken clouds by 830 am. No sign of further snow.

Frank: in Lusby in Calvert county we have 1.5" at 9:50am

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Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page. Frank also answers readers’ weather queries for the newspaper and the blog. Frank Roylance retired in October 2011. Maryland Weather is now being updated by members of The Baltimore Sun staff
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