Holiday week. Your news starts now. And we begin with a Winter Weather alert. Temperatures as you know if you stepped outside plummeted below freezing as we head into the new year holiday weekend. And theres also a possibility some areas see snow tonight. Road crews are getting ready and the Virginia Department of transportation says crews will be out this evening to treat the roads. Since roads are cold and any snow will likely stick and drivers license should Pay Attention to ice that may development on wet pavement that will create slick conditions. Vdot is urging drivers to stay off the roads altogether ft. Weather takes a turn. Are we talking significant snow . The districts snow team is going into action. 200 trucks will hit the road and pretreating major highways and primary and secondary and neighborhood routes. Maryland sends out trucks and pretreats corrodes. Person to answer your question is gwen. Gwen, how serious is this. Were not getting a major snowstorm this is a klirp
Snow . Were going to get to gwen with what we can expect. I dont know if im the bearer of good or bad news tonight. I feel like the holiday gr grinch. Cold weather is here to stay the at least for a bit tony and we have another arctic blast coming behind what were already getting and yes, there is snow in my forecast and and temperature and to mannasas, 19 in dulles this hour and frederick is at 18 and 19 hagerstown and 21 cumberland and 23al call paper. These are air temperatures. Factor in the winds and theyre pretty cold and lets see what the wind chill values are. It feels like this if you step outside. 15 d. C. Look at hagerstown and mar martinsburg. Feels like its only a chilly 12 degrees and 21 at winchester and 19 at dulles and 15 baltimore. I want to tell you the morning lows today were 10 dulles and bwi. Heres a look at snow headed our way. Its a very fastmoving clipper system. Its going to stick, however, so we have icy spots to be concern about and were not talking a lot in
Fraer also on a two thundershower slay. St. Mary county schools are closed. Culpeper, fairfax and Fauquier County will be closed tomorrow. You can final the complete list of closures at the bottom of your screen sdmrlt latest on the storm known as bomb cyclone. Not that were meaning to scare anybody with that. It promotes fear in some people. Awhat it means we have a powerful nor easter that strengthen the rapidly and bombing storage is where we see mill i wars 20 in 24 this does more than that as a result of that the coast will take a penalty from wind and snow as we go forward and thats why there are bliz artd wangz for the coast and Winter Weather advisory in the purple for d. C. Area and winter storm warnings pour heavier snow between advisory and blizzard built, wow, its all right getting going and looks like everything is on electronic. And that light snow is beginning to great out now. We all know some of you have seen it and many of you have not. I looked outside the station in
Meanwhile the brutally cold and dangerously low temperatures continue to persist. Tonight theres a number of School Closings and delays for tomorrow. Right now, heres what we k know. Anne arrundel, calvert, charles, howard, Prince George are all on a twohour delay. All of those School Systems on a twohour delay. St. Mary county is closed. Meanwhile in virginia cul culpeper, fairfax and fauquier counties on two hour delay tomorrow. You can find updated list of closingss and delays on the bottom of your screen. From the cold and snow and storm preparations and your safety, sue palka. Most of us will see snow covering the brown ground with the most intense period of snow just before dawn and boy, we have a lot of advisories to cover. Let me get straight to that. You may have seen picture of the a record 5. 3 in South Carolina today. Thats historic. Its only done that three times i believe. Third grade of snow. As we look in our area we have a number of advisories to get you caught up on.
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