SPECAL WEATHER STATEMENT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD /WASHINGTON DC

130 PM EST THU DEC 5 2013

*POTENTAL FOR A SIGNIFIGANT ICE ACCUMULATION   FOR WASHINGTON METRO AREA ON SUNDAY*

TIMING IS CRTITICAL AS TO WHAT WE GET HOWEVER THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT THE PRECIPITATION ON SUNDAY WILL BE EATHER A WINTERY MIX OF SNOW SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN OR JUST SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN.  STARTING LATE SATURDAY NIGHT ENDING EARLY MONDAY MORNING MAYBE LASTING INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON.

  ONSET MAY BE AS SNOW AND MAYBE A QUICK HALF INCH COULD ACCUMULATE BEFORE CHANGE OVER TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN IN ALL AREAS OF THE WASHINGTON METRO AREA  POINTS SOUTH AND EAST   COULD SEE A PERIOD OF Freezing RAIN BEFORE THE CHANGE OVER TO RAIN  LATER SUNDAY AFTERNOON  WHILE AREAS NORTH AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 95 COULD SEE LONGER PERIODS OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN,  RIGHT NOW  ITS TO UNCERTIN TO PIN DOWN PRECIPITATION TYPES BUT INDICATIONS ARE THAT IT WILL BE A ICING EVENT POINTS WEST OF INTERSTATE 95 AND  THAT ARE HIGHER THAN  WASHINGTON AND POINTS SOUTH  AND  EAST

POTENTAL ACCUMULATIONS.  COULD RANGE FROM  .10 OF AN INCH SOUTH AND EAST TO  0.25 MAYBE AS MUCH AS 0.50 INCH OF ICE NORTH AND WEST OF  INTERSTATE  95  AREAS LIKELY AFFECTED ARE  MONTGOMERY, CARROLL , FREDERICK,WASHINGTON ,ALLEGANY,BALTIMORE AND BALTIMORE CITY COULD SEE A PERIOD OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN BEFORE MIXING WITH OR CHANGING TO RAIN CITY PROPPER AND MAYBE COLD ENOUGH TO SUPORT FREEZING RAIN OUT SIDE THE CITY  IN MARYLAND  HOWARD COULD SEE A MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND PLANE RAIN  SINCE I-95 CUTS THROUGH HOWARD COUNTY.  WASHINGTON DC PROPPER COULD   SEE A PERIOD OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN BEFORE THE CHANGE OVER CITY SOUTH AND EAST TO RAIN.

AGAIN TIMEING IS CRITTICAL AND  THE UNCERTINTY IS HIGH STILL  AT THIS TIME  AND ANY POTENTAL WATCHES AND WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED LATER CLOSER TO THE TIME OF THE EVENT.