All 55 West Virginia counties are under a state of emergency for the winter storm sweeping across the country.

One of the regions hit the hardest in Monday’s storm was south of Pittsburgh in Morgantown, West Virginia, where the area was expecting more than nine inches of snow. They were getting the most they’d seen in a long time,

According to the National Weather Service in Charleston, 5.5 inches of snow fell on Jan. 5, 2025, which was covered in a coating of about 1/4 inch of ice, thanks to a freezing rain late in the day. More snow and freezing rain is likely from Winter Storm Blair before 2 p.

West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle counties are under a Winter Weather Advisory and Hazardous Weather Outlook. Eastern Panhandle counties could get 5-9 inches of snow with one-tenth of an inch of ice.