Most Fairfax County residents woke up this morning (Monday) to a wintry landscape, but the amount of snow they saw varied depending on exactly where in the county they live.
Snow accumulations from the storm that arrived in the D.C. region yesterday (Sunday) afternoon ranged from a mere inch in the Mount Vernon area to 4.5 inches in Reston, the highest amount recorded in the county, according to preliminary data from the National Weather Service.
More local snowfall totals reported by the NWS shortly before 10 a.m.:
- Reston: 4.5 inches, recorded at 6 a.m. by an NWS employee)
- Dunn Loring: 3.5 inches, recorded at 5:30 a.m. by a trained spotter)
- Herndon: 3.3 inches, recorded at 8 a.m. by an NWS employee)
- Fairfax Station: 3 inches, recorded at 7:45 a.m. by a trained spotter)
- West Springfield: 3 inches, 8:20 a.m. by a trained spotter)
- Vienna: 2.7 inches, 8:09 a.m. by a trained spotter)
- Lake Barcroft: 2.5 inches, 7 a.m. by a trained spotter)
- Dulles International Airport: 2 inches, official NWS observation taken at 7 a.m.)
- Mount Vernon area: 1 inch, recorded at 7 a.m. by a community volunteer)
The snowfall data confirms that, as expected, this was a more ordinary winter storm for Fairfax County than the one that passed through on Jan. 25, dropping over 8 inches of snow in some spots mixed with sleet and ice that hardened into immovable “snowcrete” due to a prolonged period of extreme cold…