It is friday, january 5th. Lets tell you about the School Closings first. Then well get to erin and also to mike about our weather and traffic which are of course the big stories today. Area School Systems are not taking any chances with the extreme and dangerous cold. Most are delayed or closed. Lets go over to big ones and well start in maryland where the latest delay is for Frederick County schools. They are delayed two hours now. Anne arrundel and Montgomery County schools are also on a twohour delay. Saint marys county schools are closed. Charles county schools closed. Prince georges county schools closed. Calvert county schools closed. Lets go to virginia. Arlington county schools twohour delay. Alexandria city and Falls Church City schools twohour delay. Fairfax county schools closed. Loudoun county schools closed. Prince William County and Spotsylvania County schools are also closed. Stafford county schools are closed. Manassas city and Manassas Park schools are closed. Also in
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
Tonight the Golden Globes. For our entire crew im terry gannon, z2l2xz z16fz y2l2xy y16fy right now at 6 00, a Winter Weather advisory set to go into effect. This is video from Great Falls Park. It is a Storm Team Alert and take a look at what is causing the concern. That system right there, thats headed our way. Our meteorologist is standing by. The structure causing so many problems on campus and keeping the students away. Well, we broke records this morning and another blast of wintry weather is headed our way. Good evening. Imer m erica gonzalez. This is video of people enjoying Great Falls Park today. Picture perfect, isnt it . But the weather is about to take a dangerous storm team turn. We begin our Live Team Coverage from the weather center. Za mar za mr ra which means black ice, folks. Ill let you know the timing. Lets take a look at the area with a Winter Weather advisory. Its the bulk of the region until you head farther south down toward southern maryland. You guys not unde
Spotsylvania you let the glean. You get the green. We have rain and its moving up. So areas to the north is where we are watching for mainly sleep. As it transitions to rain some could hit the freezing ground. The advisory until 9 00. We are tracking that and temperatures. 35 in d. C. 33 in manassas. Fredericksburg at 37. Freezing and below freezing to the north. This is something to be careful with. We talk about the roads and the sidewalk. Talk about the roads and go out live to meteorologist josh knight in stormwatch7. You are on the dulles toll road heading where . Toward reston . Josh that is right. We are heading to reston. A chance to look and see the roads. Its moving here and we want to head north and west. Where the colder temperatures are. We are checking to leesburg. Hanging around the freezing mark. Right here the roads are dry. I have gotten a chance to dry out from the rain we had earlier so i havent seen issues. The big thing to keep in mind traffic is a mess. A lot of
Storm team tracker nine to give you an idea of the storm conditions. When you get out of your neighborhood in upper montgomery, there are places hit hard. When you get out of your neighborhood, the road crews have been out with mainly wet conditions. Extra caution, it should be okay. Light freezing rain and from stormtracker 9, im meteorologist howard bernstein. Back to you. Most area schools let students out early in anticipation of the wintry weather and many are headed home earlier. That impacted traffic. Ellen bryan is keeping her eyes open to monitor conditions on the roads. How are things now . If you are going out about 4 00, the entire beltway was jammed and now, it looks great. The rush hour was much earlier. The only areas with trouble is 95 in bw parkway is a better option better option. There was an accident near route 100 with a vehicle fire on the righthand side. You will have to slow down before you hit route 32. Going northbound on 95, the other area where you see volum