The chances for accumulating snow in Central Maryland late Monday and Tuesday have inched upward a bit, now set at 70 percent for Tuesday, according to forecasters at the National Weather Service.
But just how much snow is likely remains unclear. The problem is the difficulty of predicting whether, where and how two separate storm systems might come together in the region. If the timing is right, and the two systems "phase," we get more. If they straggle through separately, we get less. The tracks matter, too, as the more southerly storm could drift off the Southeast coast and out to sea before giving us much trouble.