Sunday brought high temperatures in the low 50s. That meant some of the snow that had fallen the yesterday when temperatures were well below freezing had a chance to melt.
Cold temperatures are back in the forecast on Monday. The National Weather Service issued a warning noting what melted today is likely to freeze overnight.
Schools will open 2 hours late tomorrow, Feb. 23, 2015. School offices & central offices will open on time. More at https://t.co/zNBBMjWGwr.
— Fairfax Schools (@fcpsnews) February 23, 2015
Snow began falling about 8 a.m. Saturday across the region and kept falling until about 5 p.m.
Afterward, we saw the precipitation changeover from snow to sleet, then to rain.
In a rare Saturday meeting, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors largely moved to restore funding to community services and programs that just earlier this week had been on the chopping block.
Millions in funding for Virginia Cooperative Extension programs, jailhouse drug rehabilitation programs, the Flory Small Business Center, gang awareness programs, funds for Prince William Soccer Inc., and the Boys and Girls Club – just to name a few – we’re all added back into the fiscal year 2016 budget.
Central Community Library is opening at 1 p.m. today, Feb. 22, 2015.
— PW Public Library (@PrinceWmLibrary) February 22, 2015
February 20, 2015: All Manassas City Public Schools will be CLOSED due to frigid temperatures and dangerously… https://t.co/ajLncQKi0N
— ManassasCitySchools (@mymcpsva) February 19, 2015
A wind chill advisory that was supposed to end at 9 a.m. Friday will be extended until noon. And even then there’s no immediate signs of the cold letting up.
Here are the chilling details from the National Weather Service:
The Hall at City Hall is open with an inaugural exhibit by the p-ART-ners, a professional network of Manassas area artists. What is The Hall at City Hall? It is the new place for local artists to display their work. When Councilman Ian Lovejoy talked to City Manager W. Patrick Pate about replacing the 1980’s artwork in City Hall at low or no cost, an idea was born.
In 2009 the City Council created an Arts and Tourism District in the Historic Downtown area of the city. With City Hall being right in the middle of the district, why not bring public art inside City Hall? Staff was tasked with learning about gallery space and making the area ready for artist displays.
“What we’re trying to do is make up a $50,000 shortfall, to make sure that the clubs can keep all of the programs for the Manassas, Dale City and Dumfries Boys & Girls Clubs,” said ST Billingsley, owner of Steve’s Auto Repair & Tire and a Board Member of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Prince William County.
By aiding the clubs to raise the money, they will be able to continue to offer their wide range of activities, particularly their athletics programs, Billingsley said.
All Fauquier County Public Schools will be on a 2-hour delay Thursday, February 19, 2015. Administrative offices open on time.
