The National Weather Service says our area is looking at a snow storm this coming weekend, but the severity is still up in the air.
Williamsburg-James City County schools will be opening two hours late today to allow travel during daylight hours. York schools will reopen at their regular hours.
Forecasters in the Wakefield office say a strong coastal low pressure system will be forming off the coast of the Carolinas by Friday.
Depending on how close that low comes to shore, our region could get more than three inches of snow on Friday night and Saturday. That’s the most likely scenario as of Tuesday afternoon.
Two less likely scenarios show the low heading out to sea and missing us altogether, or coming in closely and walloping the east coast from South Carolina to Maine.
One saving grace – this storm is expected to produce snow, not the ice and freezing rain we had Sunday.
“We had limited power outages and accidents” last weekend, James …