City, winchester schools are also closed. Now to the delays in maryland. Montgomery anne arundel, washington and Frederick County schools will open two hours late. Arlington, alexandria and Falls Church Schools will open two hours late in virginia as Will Jefferson county schools in west virgin virginia. The federal government is open today. Why ask for this. Chuck bell has the forecast. Good morning, aaron. Eun, good morning. Welcome to friday, a day spent mostly inside. About 9 degrees in not about. It is 9 in gaithersburg. 13 manassas. 14 here in washington. The feelslike factor, it is still windy. Windchills below zero across the region. A windchill advisory continues through noon. The advisory criteria, whi minus 15 degrees. The wind is here, not just for today and tonight. It will stay windy through the day tomorrow as well. No real relief from the bitter cold wind until sunday. Ill show you the forecast and highs and lows for the weekend coming up. For now almost killed myself o
Instead of the watergate. The wind is the issue. Windchills are running between 5 and 10 below zero this morning across most of the area and points north and west. As youre going outside today, waiting for a bus tstop, no matter what youre doing, bundle up. Windchills through zero over the course of the day. The sun will be out. Highs today will be in the teens. So be like this little kitty, this is what you should wear today. Layer upon layer upon layer. You got it, put it on. Your winter parka, insulated gloves, thick socks, i dont think i left anything out. Well doublecheck. Melissa, lets hear more about the skating rink problem. Breaking news near the Kennedy Center. Rock creek parkway near virginia avenue. Take a look at this. It is an ice rink because of a nearby water main break. You can see out there, trying to treat the roads. Megan mcgrath, well get a live report in a minute. Northbound rock creek parkway. Westbound have va vairginia ave. You cannot use istreet ramp to 66 or
Calvert county schools are closed. In virginia arlington county, alexandria city and Falls Church City schools on a twohour delay. Fairfax county and Loudoun County no school today. Youre closed. Prince william, spotsylvania and Stafford County schools also closed. Manassas city and Manassas Park schools are closed. Also the federal government is open on time today. You can see all the latest closings and delays, they are scrolling along the bottom of your screen. And also on fox5d. C. Com and on the fox5 news and weather apps. Lets get right to Tucker Barnes for a first check on our forecast this morning and i can only assume from the School Closings its because of the cold because were not expecting accumulation, right, tuck. I think its a combination of some of the leftover snow and ice from yesterday and certainly these bitter cold temperatures and the wind chills right now pretty extraordinary here. Getting minus numbers for just about everybody. There are your wind chills. You pr
Cold though. Yeah, just incredible how clean and how far you can see with this air arctic air in place. What is not pleasant being outside though. Just want to show you those are all wind chill advisories. Its not just here in washington, its up and down the eastern seaboard in fact all the northeast under either wind chill advisories or wind chill warnings and we, too, are under that advisory right through the noon hour. The reason why right now. Heres wait feels like outside when you step out this morning. Feels like minus three here in the city, minus seven out at dulles. Minus seven in hagerstown. Winds blowing out of the north and west about 25 to 30 with air temperatures in the low teens and upper Single Digits. Ill have all the details on a very, very brutally cold forecast coming up in just a minute guys. Back to you. Actually at 7 oclock this morning the frigid weather is our big story. Today will bring record breaking cold air and bitter winds. Parts of new england will feel
Im eun yang. Were going to get to more about the golden globes. Well talk more about the crazy weather. Because of a system headed our way, it could cause problems tonight. Well get to that in a second, as well as water main breaks. The temperatures causing School Delays and closings. Marlton Elementary School will be closed because the heating isnt working. In virginia, spotsylvania, page and Shenandoah County schools closed. Jefferson county schools in West Virginia are also closed. As for the delays, fredericksburg city and Stafford County schools will open two hours late. Right now, lets turn to meteorologist chuck bell for a look at the forecast this morning. 20 degrees right now outside the studios. It feels nowhere near as cold as it was. Dulles and bwi set record low temperatures. Bwi marshall fell to plus one yesterday morning. National airport, the record was 5 and we only made it to 8 degrees. So with the cold air in place, the ground is frozen solid. Have a Winter Weather a