Cold air slow to arrive means less than inch of snow across Delaware

The forecast of 2 to 3 inches of snow for northern Delaware on Thursday is now looking like less than an inch of flakes – if even that.  

Snow was coming down heavily shortly before 10 a.m. in the Talleyville area, with thick flakes flying through the air. But the snow stopped about 11:30 a.m. and nothing had stuck to the ground.

While still mostly cloudy, the sun could be seen around noon trying to poke through the clouds in parts of northern Delaware. 

The National Weather Service had predicted snow across the state with northern New Castle County seeing as much as 3 inches. But before noon, the service revised its forecast calling for a total daytime snow accumulation of less than 1 inch.

“It’s a timing issue,” AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter explained. Essentially the systems that were expected to be over the area at the same time to produce larger amounts of snow didn’t occur.