Luray is 28. Everybody remains below freezing. When you look at the wind chill factor out there we have teens at 4 00 in the afternoon and we are talking temperatures that are well lower than the average temperature for the day. The good news now the clouds and radar showing you its dry. So other than the biting cold, you dont have to worry about the snow potential tonight. Its in the 20s as you make your way out the door for the evening rush. You need to layer up. One of the big problems were dealing with because of the cold snap is the water mains breaking. Maybe some of you have been dealing with that around your house. Tom roussey is out live at just one of them in Silver Spring on New Hampshire avenue. How are you out there, man . Tom ah, im all right but man, the water mains are not. This is just one of them. There are so many throughout the d. C. Area. This one, though, wreaking some of the most havoc. This is on New Hampshire avenue in silver spr check out what it is doing to t
Area. We feel it here at this stage. We are stuck in a deep freeze. Alison abc7s tom roussey joins us from siller is spring where crews are work Silver Spring where the crews are working on a water main break. This is just part of the problem out there today, right . Tom it is. There are a lot of affects from the cold. The water main break is one of the worst. This is on New Hampshire avenue. So as you can imagine its wreaking havoc on traffic. I just got an update. Good news. They have made progress. It wont last forever but it will last through the evening rush hour. Thanks to the water main break the traffic was bad even before rush hour started. Bad. Really bad. How bad was the traffic you were in . Bad. Back like 20 minutes. That is right. 20 minutes from the beltway, which you could see less than a quarter mile away. Everything had to merge to one lane. What i dont like about it is the left lane, they think they automatically can get in without any courtesy. New hampshire avenue
It goes as far west of Prince Williams county, Fauquier County as well. Then you get to the southeast. Westmoreland county, a warning but the shade of red, ocean city and Rehoboth Beach is included. There is a blizzard warning in effect. Look at all the red that runs up through parts of maine. A pretty widespread area that has a blizzard warning in effect. Here is the storm right now. You mentioned down in the deep south. Its snowing throughout South Carolina. It snowed earlier in georgia and florida. Its working its way up to North Carolina. Now if you look outside the clouds we have out there that werent there a couple of hours ago are the leading edge clouds that are working on in. The system that will be affecting us tonight. With the temperatures, we went up to the mid30s and we are above freezing for the moment. Warmest temperatures weve had in a while. But the roads are you dont have to worry about it for the next couple of hours but by tomorrow morning the commute will be very,
That will be changing as we go to the night tonight where we are expecting snow around midnight. Then into the morning commute. In terms to how much up to two inches of snow around the d. C. Metro. We break down the timing to talk about more specifics. Coming up later in the show, stick around, i will break down what the term is. The bomb cyclone specifically. We will have that in a little bit. Larry all right. We will talk to you soon. The 7 on your side team can alert you the moment the child school cancels or delays. Go to wjla. Com text to sign up. Alison i want to hear more about the bomb cyclone coming up. Schools across the area have been scrambling to cope with the bitter cold. Its taxing buses, Heating Systems and pipe as we soldier through another day where the temperatures hit zero in some part of the area. Stephen tschida is following a growing list of problems. Stephen the list continues the grow. You see this heap of you can see the moisture. Im telling you, it is very, v
Vj toss to eileen se washington eileen toss to Julie Julie Julie toss to johnny in Calvert County right now the Winter Weather right now the Winter Weather travellers. Thousands of flights cancelled or delayed across the country. And dozens of School Districts closed in our area just in Fairfax County, now closed. Melanie hastings is at the live desk in the newsroom with more first up delays and cancellations on amtrak. Northeast Regional Service between dc and newport news and norfolk is completely cancelled today amtrak is also operating a modified schedule between new york and boston. As for flights the board at Reagan National is showing more and more red. Its a similar story up and down the east coast. About 35hundred flights are canceled today, according to flightaware dot com. If you do have a trip scheduled the airlines are being all the major carriers have travel alerts in place. That means you can change or cancel your ticket at no cost. Dozens of schools are closed or delaye