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
Higher amounts to the east, as we expected. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] it is chilly out there, and the wind will become the big story over the next 24 hours. Here is what it looks like. Snow from georgia to north florida. This is the storm that almost looks like a hurricane as it rapidly moves on off to the northeast. This storm will eventually move on out of here rather quickly. Look at the snow totals national zoo a little over half inch of us know. In mount vernon. Temperatures outside right now, if you are going to be out and about for the lunch hour, it is cold. 22 degrees in burke. Newington at 24 degrees. Clouds and radar does show most of the activity moving out for the east. What you see around the d. C. Metro area is not going to expected. This will continue a little bit longer until 6 00 p. M. Windchill factors as the winds begins to pick up will take a dive later t
Bombagenesis . Bill bomb cyclone. I retreated stuff from the satellite that showed it wound up and lookedded like a hurricane out there. That is the deep drop of pressure we talked about last night. Its pushing up to new england. For the most part out of our area in terms of what is going on with the snowfall. Now we have driving winds out of the northwest. That moves us forward to the next story. Its a big story. Wind chill advisory posted for the entire region. Of course, it includes d. C. Metro. That goes all the way up out of our region as well. The wind gusts right now, if youve been outside you know this and you might hear this. The tree flowing around. We have a wind gust of 40 in winchester. 36 Miles Per Hour is the wind gust around d. C. 38 in gaithersburg, frederick, the same thing. If you look at the temperatures now the big chill begins. 26 in d. C. 22 in gaithersburg. The feels like temperature is what you need to prepare for if you are going outside now is in the Single D
Parts of maryland and virginia are slammed by the snow. But some parts have as much as 14 inches of snow, the highest total in our area are a little more than two inches. The majority of the area saw less than an inch. Why were the schools closed today . Stephen tschida is live in northwest asking parents if they thought Closing School was a good idea. Stephen . Stephen strong reaction to the question. Seton Elementary School is closed up tighter than a drum like a lot of schools in the region. But check out what is on the ground. Its not knee deep. So that is why a lot of parents are not thrilled with the rationale to close schools. The weather outside isnt frightful. Still inside the Trampoline Park its unusually business for a thursday. Virginia now, this is we get an inch and they cancel school. The kids springing in action instead of studying. Some parents scrammable to find ways to occupy the children. Others took them along with them. Improvising on unexpected day off. A lot of
Very seriously and take precautions. Images from the nooa go satellite show the storm blankets the east coast. In boston, the icy river storms in street adds it dumps snow. They are urging people to stay off the slick roads. We are having accidents but we have having fewer accidents as a result of people staying home and corporating with us. It grounded flights. It closed schools and it emptied Grocery Stores shelves. For many, the worst still yet to come with record breaking forecast. The storms have been getting worse. Extreme weather is a reality. We are seeing the storms of a severity we have never seen before. Bill the cell continues to work its way up. I say it cell. A mon store storm that is monster storm that is bringing snow to new england. We had snow this morning widely varied in the region. We will talk about that in a little bit. But we move ahead to the n temperatures. Wind chill advisory out for everybody tonight. Its going to be a dangerously cold night. Right now it fe