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Richmond and southern Mid-Atlantic pick up second snow in days
A relatively active Northern Hemisphere pattern persists.
Ian Livingston
December 08, 2025
Happy Monday! Southern Virginia’s Richmond picked up 2 inches of snow on Friday with higher totals nearby. Today the area is expecting another 3 to 5 inches or a bit more. Given a normal winter snowfall of 8.8 inches the city is off to the races before astronomical winter arrives. No, no, I’m not envious. Okay … maybe a little.
Weather watch
More mid-Atlantic snow. Winter weather alerts are up for parts of Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina as another snow event passes through the region. It’s even further south than Friday’s southerly event that dropped about 1.5 inches in my backyard and more to the south. A zone of 2 to 5 inches is expected across southern Virginia. From Roanoke eastward to Richmond and Wakefield is under a winter storm warning.
Note: Some of the snow shown here in the northern West Virginia mountains is forecast to fall Wednesday night… this is a 72-hour forecast, but the southern part all falls through Tuesday morning.
Atmospheric rivers ahead. A large portion of the Pacific Northwest is under the gun for a Category 4 to perhaps 5 (on a 1-5 scale) atmospheric river. The first atmospheric river in a series hit late last week into the weekend and the one set to make landfall Monday is a good deal stronger. About 2-5 inches of rain is forecast for all locations west of and including the Cascades — the mountains could see upwards of 15-20 inches with only the highest elevations mainly in Washington forecast to pick up many feet of snow. In addition to the rain and flood threat, strong winds are expected in places like Seattle where an advisory is in effect for gusts to 40 mph.
Precipitation forecast through Wednesday night. (weatherbell.com)
Storm Bram. Much of the United Kingdom is under weather alert as a powerful ocean low is set to skirt western parts of the country on Tuesday. Western Scotland could take the worst of it — gusts up to around 90 mph are forecast there. In addition to travel impact and power outages, flooding is also possible with the storm.
UKMET weather model forecast for Thursday evening local time. (weatherbell.com)
Lightning links
A G3 solar storm is anticipated December 9. (Space Weather Prediction Center)
Polar vortex shift poised to unleash more bitter cold across the US through mid-December. (Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather)
Kīlauea volcano live camera records its own demise as eruption spews fountain of lava into the air. (Olivia Stephens, FOX Weather)
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