A week after getting a white Christmas in the Hagerstown area, the area might get a white New Year’s Day, according to the National Weather Service.
No precipitation was forecast for New Year’s Eve, but the area has a 20 percent chance of rain and snow starting late Tuesday morning and a 20 percent chance of snow Tuesday night, according to the weather service’s website at weather.gov.
Winds on Sunday didn’t cause any major problems other than a little snow drifting in spots, according to a Washington County 911 supervisor.
Winds reached up to 40 mph on Sunday morning, according to local weather observer Greg Keefer’s website at i4weather.net.
The area received a white Christmas, with 2.9 inches of snow arriving on Christmas Eve, according to Keefer’s website.
The day after Christmas brought 2.4 inches of snow, sleet and freezing rain, according to i4weather.net. The Hagerstown area got another 2.2 inches of snow on Saturday, the site states.
The National Weather Service was forecasting mostly cloudy skies for today with a high of 37 degrees.
— Julie E. Greene
