Virginia state officials have declared a state of emergency and local leaders across Central Virginia are preparing to keep roads and runways clear ahead of the snowstorm rolling in Sunday night. The advice from all sides is to settle in comfortably at home so the professionals can get their work done safely.
The Charlottesville-area forecast calls for the storm to roll in Sunday night and stay through Monday morning, dropping 3 to 6 inches of snow, topped by a tenth of an inch of ice, before ending in rain, freezing rain and sleet Monday afternoon.
“The worst will be gone by noon Monday,” Travis Koshko, chief meteorologist at CBS19, told The Daily Progress. “The roads are certainly going to be tricky Monday.”
Koshko called the incoming inclement weather “an old-fashioned snowstorm with some ice on top.” He said that snow is expected to start at about 8 or 9 p.m. …