In message ,
xmetman writes
On Friday, 22 January 2016 15:48:18 UTC, Richard Dixon wrote:
On Friday, 22 January 2016 10:49:52 UTC, wrote:
I have been reliably informed by my elderly neighbour that the great US
blizzard due to hit today will then strike us in a week's time. He firmly
believes it and says he has been right in the past. Bless.

Even Carol Kirkwood made reference to it coming across the Atlantic
but cautioned thankfully that snow would be unlikely.

Still a good time for vicariously taking a look at white stuff piling
up on webcams...

It's all still a bit premature, when I went looking for it on the
charts I was surprised to find that the deepening low was still over
Alabama, but tomorrow will be interesting on the eastern seaboard. The
really deep cold air is still a long way north though.

Yes, ATM it looks like it's still quite a nice day in Washington:

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/dc/natio...m=nationalmall

But the snow has reached Richmond, VA:

http://weather.weatherbug.com/cameras/weather/RCBRK
http://weather.weatherbug.com/camera...238,-77.449614
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