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Sunday snowfall will mostly melt Monday in central Virginia

Posted at 7:17 AM, Feb 20, 2012
and last updated 2012-02-25 01:19:32-05

All of central Virginia began Monday morning with a Winter wonderland still on the ground. Here’s the sunrise view from Downtown Richmond looking toward Oregon Hill (left side of picture), where nearly 3″ fell Sunday night.

The better snowfall was in the west-central and southwestern parts of Virginia, though, as depicted by this morning’s post-snow storm snow depth map:

Areas in red on this snow-pack temperature map are the most prone to rapid melting today, especially aided by sunshine and highs in the upper 40s!

Here’s some selected snowfall reports from Sunday’s storm in central Virginia:
5.1″ Glen Allen (Henrico Co)
5.0″ Midlothian (Chesterfield Co)
4.0″ Hanover (Hanover Co)
4.0″ Ruther Glen (Caroline Co)
3.9″ Richmond Intl Airport (Henrico Co)
3.8″ 4 miles W of Bowling Green (Caroline Co)
3.5″ 1 mile WSW of Brook Hill, City of Richmond
3.5″ Victoria (Lunenburg Co)
3.5″ 5 miles N of Boydton (Mecklenburg Co)
3.3″ Caret (Essex Co)
3.0″ Westover Heights, City of Richmond
3.0″ Hampden Sydney (Prince Edward Co)
3.0″ 7 miles NE of Disputanta (Prince George Co)
2.5″ Chesterfield (Chesterfield Co)
2.5″ Chester (Chesterfield Co)
2.5″ Amelia Courthouse (Amelia Co)
2.5″ 2 miles WSW of Meltons (Louisa Co)
2.5″ 2 miles E of Blackstone (Nottoway Co)
2.0″ Newland (Richmond Co)
2.0″ City of Colonial Heights
2.0″ South Hill (Mecklenburg Co)
1.7″ 1 mile NW of Wakefield (Sussex Co)
1.5″ Louisa (Louisa Co)
1.5″ 1 WNW of Bottoms Bridge (New Kent Co)
1.3″ 1 NW of Wakefield (Sussex Co)
1.0″ Norge (James City Co)
0.8″ Gloucester (Gloucester Co)
0.5″ Jamestown (James City Co)

Here’s another snowy sunrise shot from Ashland at the campus of Randolph-Macon College:

Stay with CBS 6, we’ll keep you ahead of the storm!
–Meteorologist Carrie Rose