Winter weather advisories remain in effect Thursday after a major snow storm dropped a double-digit layer of snow Wednesday.

Meteorologists said Thursday morning that an additional half inch of snow is possible because of a second system moving over the area, but after that, Hampton Roads will be snow free. Up to a foot of snow has been reported in communities across South Hampton Roads, while many Peninsula neighborhoods got closer to 8 inches.

“Over in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, in those areas, that seems to be where the best snowfall was,” said Eric Seymour, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Wakefield. “The models, really, did a pretty good job with (predicting snow totals).”

Snow on the ground , though, may be here for a while. Temperatures will struggle to get above freezing Thursday and Friday.

“I don’t think we’re going above freezing,” Seymour said Thursday during a briefing. “Then (Thursday night) we’re back down into the middle teens and going into Friday. We do start to see a little bit of a recovery in temperatures, getting around 40 degrees. We’ll start to see a little bit of the warming trend that we’re expecting as we go into the weekend, but (it will) still (be) cold Friday night.”

Wind gusts could pose issues Thursday evening and Friday. The weather service reported that gusts could get up to 30 mph toward the Oceanfront and in the high 20s in inland areas of Hampton Roads. This can cause blowing snow, which impacts visibility for drivers.