Winter Weather — Newport News, Virginia

2021-02-13 to 2021-02-14 · Newport News, Virginia

Event narrative

Light freezing rain or freezing drizzle resulted in ice accretion between a trace and 0.20 inch across the county. A few trees and power lines were downed, with scattered power outages reported due to the ice accretion.

Wider weather episode

The combination of Arctic high pressure ridging into the Mid Atlantic region, and weak low pressure areas tracking across the Carolinas and off the Mid Atlantic coast, resulted in minor ice accretion between a trace and 0.20 inch due to light freezing rain or freezing drizzle across portions of southeast Virginia.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 942594. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.