If you live in Virginia, you may want to stock up on milk, bread and no eggs this week in preparation for up to a foot of snow throughout the state.
A winter storm could bring major snow accumulation on Wednesday and Thursday.
There are still a lot of question marks surrounding the storm’s path: one scenario would bring a foot of snow to the area, and another model shows the Shenandoah Valley may not see a single snowflake.
“The big question is how big of a turn toward the northeast will the storm make? If the storm takes a sharp turn toward the northeast and hugs the coast, much of the state will be in for a major snowstorm,” said Tom Kines, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather.
“A more gradual turn will keep the storm far enough off the coast so that the Shenandoah Valley would be spared a major snowfall although the eastern part of the state could still have decent snowfall.”
For the Shenandoah Valley, a storm with six inches or more of snow in a 12-hour period would be classified as a major snowstorm, Kines said.
“If all the pieces fell in the right place or wrong place, depending on your point of view, there would be a foot of snow in most of the state.”
“It’s also possible there is no snow in the western part of the state,” he said. “With the storm being five days away so many things can happen between now and then.”
The AccuWeather app currently shows about six inches predicted for Waynesboro, as one example.
“Storm or no storm, next week looks cold. Bundle up.”
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