Alice ❖ Packard

instinct tells me that setting a mode to any layer within a main component is a bad idea. wdyt?

NEW: Coating of snow possible this afternoon/evening, coinciding with rush hour Scattered snow showers and flurries sweeping through the area between midafternoon and this evening could produce a coating and complicate the evening rush hour. Snow shouldn’t last in any one area more than an hour or two but, as cold as it is, whatever falls will accumulate. “If this threat does materialize during this evening’s rush-hour, any untreated roads could quickly turn snow covered and slippery,” the National Weather Service wrote in a special statement. “This could lead to dangerous traveling conditions.” Short-term models agree that the hit-or-miss activity is probable starting around 3 p.m. in the vicinity of Frederick, Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia, before reaching the Beltway area around 4 or 5 p.m. The snow showers will probably reach areas south and east of the Beltway between 6 and 7 p.m. and then exit areas near the bay and Southern Maryland by 9 p.m. or so.