Snow Squall Warning, Delaware
SevereFlash freeze on roads, gusts up to 50 mph. Travel will become difficult and potentially dangerous within minutes.
Ended Thursday, January 1, 2026.
- Issued
- Expires
Places in this warning
- Dover
- Middletown
- Bear
- Smyrna
- Rising Sun-Lebanon
- Clayton
- Harrington
- Camden
- Highland Acres
- Dover Base Housing
- Townsend
- Woodside East
- Riverview
- Kent Acres
- St. Georges
- Cheswold
- Delaware City
- Wyoming
- Rodney Village
- Felton
- Frederica
- Houston
- Odessa
- Bowers
- Magnolia
- Kenton
- Little Creek
- Woodside
- Leipsic
- Port Penn
- Viola
- Farmington
- Hartly
How much
- Wind gusts
- Up to 50 mph Blowing snow on open roads
Map
- This warning
- Area drawn by the weather service
- Interstates
- US highways
- Moving southeast at 20 mph
Details from the National Weather Service
- What
- Flash freeze on roads. Intense bursts of heavy snow and gusty winds leading to blowing snow and rapidly falling visibility. Wind gusts up to 50 mph could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects.
- Squall now
- At 5:34 in the morning, a dangerous snow squall was located along a line extending from Port Penn to Lake Shore, moving southeast at 20 mph.
- Where
- Southwestern New Castle County (Delaware), Kent County (Delaware), Talbot County (Maryland), Queen Anne's County (Maryland), Caroline County (Maryland), Kent County (Maryland).
- When
- Until 6:30 in the morning.
- Impacts
- Travel will become difficult and potentially dangerous within minutes.
- Places named
- Dover, Middletown, Easton, Centerville, Talbot, Smyrna, Milford, Chestertown, Denton, Centreville, Harrington, Camden, Clayton, Greensboro, Oakland, Delaware City, Ridgely, Cheswold, Rock Hall, and Trappe.
- Seen by
- Radar and webcams.
Updates
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Snow Squall Warning issued until Thursday, 6:30 in the morning. January 1, 2026