Love to be out here playing in this nice fresh snow. Look at it coming down here. Its getting powdery now. It was a little more coarse and frozen earlier. I want to show you how much snow has fallen. This bench presumably has not been touched. Ill wave my hand or push it off. There is an icier texture to the snow out here. As you mentioned, blizzard watches into effect out here, blowing this snow and the snowflakes every which way. Thats why were seeing tracks of our own and vehicles that have moved down here become recovered by the fresher powder that is continuing to fall on top of it. Here at ocean city, between 5 inches of snow to perhaps more than that. As of right now, watching plows making their way around baltimore and this boardwalk. They were brining yeste ready for this. Of course, state and local administrators asking anyone who does not have to venture out into this, just to avoid it. I can tell you, although it feels a bit warmer out here with that wind blowing, it does g
Scrolling on the bottom of your screen. Larry the federal government opening today on a two hour delay. Certainly telework is an option. Autria it is all hands on deck here on good morning washington. We have our entire team on your side. We have been on the air since 4 00 a. M. , getting you and out the door early. We say good morning to you at 6 01. I am autria godfrey. Larry i am larry smith. Veronica johnson is with us come our meteorologist. You saw the picture from brian bell, it is beginning to move inland. Know we were talking about this yesterday, we never said it would be a major storm system, but it is enough that could cause some trouble. Right now, you can see that spin, and look at that jog off to the east. It is starting to make its way out of here and to the coast. Also down in d. C. , as the richman and norfolk area, the most intense snow around the i95 corridor. Look at the dark blue line. That is one of the smaller bands coming through with the snow here to read as i
Bomb cyclone. Well talk more about that coming up. Lets get right to the radar. Snow continues across the area. Not terribly heavy up and down the i95 corridor but it is coming down, it is sticking and it will be with us for a few more hours. I will give you all the details on how much snow weve seen and how much more we can expect and what we can look forward to later today. Ill give you a hint. Lots of wind and lots of cold coming up in just a couple minutes but you can see that live radar, our storm our snow continues across the area. It will be with us for a few more hours. Erin im going to toss to you. I take it most everybody is kind of waiting it out or allison and steve . We are trying. The situation with the schools have been changing throughout the morning a lot of schools going from delayed earlier this morning or overnight to closed now. They are all scrolling at the bottom of your screen throughout the morning show. Lets get you caught up on the major systems closed or del
Rolled over again. That makes saturdays drawing now worth more than half a billion dollars. This is what we came here to do. Later first look at the four. Celebrity judges diddy, dj khaled and Meghan Trainor tell u what makes this show so unique. Two of the singers hand picked by the super stars will join us live. Good day at 9a starts now. Good day, everybody. Its 9 01 on this snowy thursday january 4th and, boy, what a start to the morning for a lot of us in this region. My goodness. Got started early and figuratively. The big story the bomb cyclone. Well call a snowstorm. Its been fall along morning long. The snow should wrap up soon in the area but blizzard conditions couldnt further east and all the way up the Atlantic Coast right now. The first real wint storm of 2018 has brought the region to a standstill most schools in the area are either closed or delayed. Many of them closed. The federal government opening late. And again were not the only ones feeling the effects the snow h
Showing the storm the last few hours, it is hammering places like boston, places like new york, even the ocean city area in new jersey, parts of new jersey picking up over a foot of snow. Now, the snow is out of here, but behind this this is what weve been talking about the last week is going to be the wind and the wind chill. Wind advisory in effect. Winds could gust up to 50 Miles Per Hour tonight. 50 mile an hour wind you see in the area highlighted. That could take down trees and see Power Outages as a result of that. Those winds also combined with the extremely cold temperatures, and you get the wind chills. Look at the wind chill advisory. It includes everyone. You have wind chill warnings for areas along the blue ridge here, but wind chill advisories, 5 to 15 below 0. They could go down as far as 20 to 25 below 0 tonight and early tomorrow morning. Much more on this, much more on the cold, how long it sticks around, what to expect tomorrow morning, what to expect this weeke the