StormTracker 8: Sprinkle later today; Vipir Alert for Winter Storm Sunday evening to Monday
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC)-- A powerful winter storm will be move into central Virginia Sunday evening through Monday. This will bring a variety of weather to Central Virginia with everyone starting as snow with several inches by midnight before many switch over to sleet and freezing rain that continues for several hours into Monday morning. Sunday and Monday are VIPIR Alert Days due to this winter storm. More details on that storm below. USE THE SLIDER BAR TO MOVE BETWEEN THE SNOWFALL FORECAST AND PRECIP TYPE FORECAST. Cloudy skies will be with us for the rest of the day as a weak weather system moves into Central Virginia. We could see a sprinkle or flurry later this afternoon or evening. It will be seasonally cool with highs near 45. Our skies will clear out tonight and it will be cold with lows near 25 in the city of Richmond but many of us will drop back into the lower 20s. Saturday will be sunny however it will be chilly with highs only in the upper 30s. All eyes will then turn toward a very powerful storm which will head our way later Sunday into Monday. We have made Sunday and Monday Viper Alert days due to the pending weather that could cause some travel headaches across central Virginia. Here's how we see the scenario playing out at this point. A little bit of sunshine will begin our day on Sunday, but clouds will quickly increase, and it will be seasonably cool with highs in the upper 30s to near 40. By Sunday evening light snow will spread across Central Virginia as the system begins to move in. However warmer air will try to slide in in the mid-levels of our sky and that will change the snow over to a prolonged period of sleet and freezing rain for many areas across Metro Richmond, to the Northern Neck and areas to the west back to Farmville and Roanoke. It does look like areas south of Petersburg to South Hill and Emporia and the Tidewater will change over to rain by early Monday morning. However, for areas around Fredericksburg to the northwest and north including Harrisonburg and Washington DC this is the area that could remain as all snow and possibly some heavier snow as you get into the northwestern sections of Virginia near the West Virginia line and even western Maryland and up through Baltimore and Philadelphia.***FULL VIDEO DISCUSSION ON THE WINTER STORM*** This system will come to an end during Monday afternoon, and it will be breezy and chilly with highs in the upper 30s. USE THE SLIDER BAR TO MOVE BETWEEN THE SNOWFALL FORECAST AND PRECIP TYPE FORECAST. Mostly sunny skies will return for Tuesday, but it will remain chilly with highs only in the middle 30s. The sunshine will stay with us for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday but so are those colder than normal temperatures with highs only in the middle to upper 30s.
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC)-- A powerful winter storm will be move into central Virginia Sunday evening through Monday. This will bring a variety of weather to Central Virginia with everyone starting as snow with several inches by midnight before many switch over to sleet and freezing rain that continues for several hours into Monday morning. Sunday and Monday are VIPIR Alert Days due to this winter storm. More details on that storm below.
Cloudy skies will be with us for the rest of the day as a weak weather system moves into Central Virginia. We could see a sprinkle or flurry later this afternoon or evening. It will be seasonally cool with highs near 45.
Our skies will clear out tonight and it will be cold with lows near 25 in the city of Richmond but many of us will drop back into the lower 20s.
Saturday will be sunny however it will be chilly with highs only in the upper 30s.
All eyes will then turn toward a very powerful storm which will head our way later Sunday into Monday. We have made Sunday and Monday Viper Alert days due to the pending weather that could cause some travel headaches across central Virginia.
Here's how we see the scenario playing out at this point. A little bit of sunshine will begin our day on Sunday, but clouds will quickly increase, and it will be seasonably cool with highs in the upper 30s to near 40. By Sunday evening light snow will spread across Central Virginia as the system begins to move in. However warmer air will try to slide in in the mid-levels of our sky and that will change the snow over to a prolonged period of sleet and freezing rain for many areas across Metro Richmond, to the Northern Neck and areas to the west back to Farmville and Roanoke. It does look like areas south of Petersburg to South Hill and Emporia and the Tidewater will change over to rain by early Monday morning. However, for areas around Fredericksburg to the northwest and north including Harrisonburg and Washington DC this is the area that could remain as all snow and possibly some heavier snow as you get into the northwestern sections of Virginia near the West Virginia line and even western Maryland and up through Baltimore and Philadelphia.
***FULL VIDEO DISCUSSION ON THE WINTER STORM***
This system will come to an end during Monday afternoon, and it will be breezy and chilly with highs in the upper 30s.
Mostly sunny skies will return for Tuesday, but it will remain chilly with highs only in the middle 30s.
The sunshine will stay with us for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday but so are those colder than normal temperatures with highs only in the middle to upper 30s.