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Timeline: How a winter storm brought I-95 to a standstill

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Updated January 5, 2022 at 7:20 a.m. EST|Published January 4, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. EST
Capital Weather Gang’s Jason Samenow talks about what caused Monday’s disruptive snowstorm across the D.C. region and provides a forecast for Thursday. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
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The precise timeline of the meltdown was still coming into focus, but Virginia transportation and law enforcement officials offered this timeline of events that led to extensive backups on Interstate 95.

• 3 a.m. Monday: The winter storm begins as rain.

• 5 to 6 a.m. Monday: The storm switches to snow.