Our Lady of Peace is sponsoring a pancake breakfast to raise funds and supplies for the Fluvanna SPCA. Some of our four-legged friends available for adoption will be attending this event in hopes of finding a new home. Come on out and support your local shelter animals! If you’re not able to make it to the breakfast, Our Lady of Peace will be accepting donations from 1/17/2011 until 1/29/2011. Visit www.fspca.org to view a list of needed items. The Fluvanna SPCA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose life-saving mission is to rescue homeless pets and place them in good, loving homes.
Event Date
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Event Time
From: 07:30 – To: 10:00
Event Venue
Our Lady of Peace, 751 Hillsdale Dr., Charlottesville, VA 22901
Pack grandma and the kids in the car, bring some snacks, and join us for Family Fun Days, where everyone in the family can create their own painting. Our artist will walk each guest step-by-step through creating the featured Artistic Abandon painting, Flutterbies, while they munch on snacks, listen to music and chat with each other. Great for ages 6 and up. Reservations required.
Choose your own adventures! • Skiers and snowboarders enjoy our assistance at partnering you with others of your same skill level (or group lessons, including for first-timers) to enjoy the 50+ slopes at this fantastic Snowshoe Mountain. Come also for your choice of: • Snow tubing • Snowshoeing • Cross-country skiing • Relaxing to a good book or movie during the peaceful daytime hours to enjoy the: • Night-time fun! We rent up to 7 houses, each house with a different theme, hop from house to house to enjoy: board games house, beverage tasting house, movies house, animal house, tranquility house and/or others. • We’ll carpool from Charlottesville and pick up any others on our way to Snowshoe, WV. Please contact us for more trip details. www.outdoorsocial.com
Wintergreen Resort
Nelson County, Virginia
If you live in the valley portions of Nelson County you’d have a very hard time believing that about 10 inches of snow fell Wednesday and Wednesday night in the county. Take trip up to Wintergreen and it’s a whole different story. NCL’s Mountain Photographer, Paul Purpura, got out Thursday and grabbed a few quick shots there. When we were up there, just before noon Thursday crews were busy clearing sidewalks from all of the snow. But the roads are in fine shape!
Crews were busy Thursday morning clearing snow from the area surrounding condos and the Mountain Inn. Ice and snow crystals encased just about everything at Wintergreen Thursday morning. 1.27.11The precipitation started as freezing rain Wednesday morning, but changed to all snow by afternoon and evening. Before the mid-week snow fell, Wintergreen Resort has already been experiencing a banner year for skiing. The addiitional 8-10 inches of powder will make for a perfect weekend of skiing and boarding. Icicles hang over the BLue Ridge Express lift at Winregreen Thursday afternoon 1.26.11Depending on what part of the mountain you were on, determind how much snow you saw. Eastern slopes had less, western slopes much more.
Light snow showers are possible overnight Thursday into Friday morning, with more significant snow possible again by next week.
Nelson County, Virginia
By 3PM all of the rain in the valley portions of Nelson had turned to heavy snow. Earlier in the day people living here were surprised by thunder snow accompanied with heavy sleet. Though temps hovered just above freezing at 33° around 4PM, the snow was falling so fat it was accumulating on both highways and the ground. Up at Wintergreen temps have been below freezing all day with lots of ice accumulation early in the day. That along with lightning from thunderstorms eventually prompted the resort to close at 3PM Wednesday afternoon.
VDOT crews run Route 151 on the Rockfish Valley putting down salt late Wednesday afternoon. Drivers head home late Wednesday afternoon as heavy snowfall started in Nelson County.
Since temperatures stayed just above freezing for much of the day Wednesday in the valley, it’s highly likely that accumulation predictions will fall short of warning levels.
Regardless, numerous widespread accidents have been occurring in both Nelson and along I-64.
Via NWS : Areas shaded in pink are under a Winter Storm Watch. In Nelson this begins at 7AM Wed & continues until 4AM Thursday. Click on map image for absolute latest updates.
Winter Weather Statement
Statement as of 9:26 PM EST on January 26, 2011 Winter Storm Warning is canceled
The National Weather Service in Baltimore MD/Washington has
canceled the Winter Storm Warning.
Accumulating snow has ended across the area.
EARLIER POST – CANCELED – CANCELED – CANCELED
WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST THURSDAY…
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
653 PM EST WED JAN 26 2011
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-PRINCE GEORGES-ANNE ARUNDEL-NELSON-ALBEMARLE-
GREENE-MADISON-ORANGE-CULPEPER-
PRINCE WILLIAM/MANASSAS/MANASSAS PARK-FAIRFAX-
ARLINGTON/FALLS CHURCH/ALEXANDRIA-STAFFORD-SPOTSYLVANIA-
SOUTHERN FAUQUIER-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…WASHINGTON…ANNAPOLIS…
CHARLOTTESVILLE…CULPEPER…MANASSAS…MANASSAS PARK…FAIRFAX…
ALEXANDRIA…FALLS CHURCH…FREDERICKSBURG
653 PM EST WED JAN 26 2011
…WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST
THURSDAY…
A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST THURSDAY.
* PRECIPITATION TYPE…HEAVY SNOW.
* ACCUMULATIONS…4 TO 7 INCHES…LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ACROSS
NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
* TIMING…SNOW WILL END AROUND MIDNIGHT.
* TEMPERATURES…LOWER 30S…DROPPING INTO THE LOWER TO MID 20S
OVERNIGHT
* WINDS…NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 20 MPH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE
EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL
MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.