DC area expecting heavy rain, wind as 2 powerful winter storms eye central, eastern US

Two powerful, potentially blizzard-level storms will impact the eastern half of the country this week. One during the early workweek, with the second coming at the tail end. On Sunday, the first blizzard warnings were issued ahead of the early week system for parts of the Southern Plains, where the system will take form on Monday. 

DC Snowpocalypse: City's 2009 record-setting snowstorm in photos

Flashback…14 years ago…the entire D.C. region is covered in more than a foot of snow! It was the blizzard of December 18-19, 2009. Known locally as Snowpocalypse, it would go down as the largest December snowstorm in the recorded weather history of the nation’s capital!