Ill have all the details on owe all right. Guys, back to you. As we talk about extreme cold its impacting schools in greater d. C. Region. Couple closures. Arch bish ol carol in d. C. Closed today because of plumbing problems caused by cold and barnaby manner Elementary School oxon hill close because of water main break. Delays in virginia clark county schools delay one hour. Page county schools and Frederick County virginia schools on a two hour delay. In West Virginia, berkley, grant, hardy and Jefferson Country schools youre on hour delay and western maryland, alleghany and Garrett County schools both delayed two hours. For the kids going to school on time there were several chmerkovskiys several chmerkovskiys inclouding good morning, allison, steve, when its cold liking this and theres certain schools in montgomery country without heat and here in Montgomery County buses are affected by the cold. What happened, over the last two weeks kids were on lengthy winter break and none of t
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Orange are blizzard warnings. Blizzard warnings from the coast of new jersey through massachusetts and maine and a little part of North Carolina has a blizzard warning and you dont see that often. Yellow weather alert, why . Minor to high risk of snow and slick roads, high risk and high winds high risk. It will slow your morning commute. Extra time to slow down. Drifting snow also a high impact. Through tomorrow, tomorrow night and friday we see drifting snow. A trace to an inch and leesburg towards manasses. 1 to 2 inches in southern sections of southeastern Prince Georges County, delmarva and southern sections of maryland. And delmar but is the bulls eye. We will come back and talk about how cold it will get by the system and why we issued a yellow weather alert for friday and saturday as well. Hour early tomorrow at 4 00 a. M. And we will have everything you need to know before you go out the door to work or school so use hashtag wusa9 whether to share snowpacks and we may use them
Does not take up the eastern half of the country. Along the shore where we are going toe see the largest totals. Where the storm is currently, its off to the south. South carolina and north carolina, seeing snow. Rain on the radar. At least picking up by the radar out around the outer banks. But it transitions to the winter mix and snow and north carolina. That headed to our area. The clouds in the afternoon the leading edge there. How much snow, as you mentioned, up to two inches around the d. C. Metro. I think its potentially on the higher side. But i certainly see it in the range of the possibility. You go farther east. Even in our area, st. Marys county. Two to four inches possible. Areas that are farther east seeing more than that. Temperature wise is warmer today. We got above freezing. But we are right back down to 32. So all surfaces will hold it as snow. Everything will be below freezing. We will continue to break down the timing specifically and move ahead to the temperatures
Were here at the d. C. Department of public works storm team 4 command center. The employees will be looking at these monitors. There are nine of them. If you notice, theyll sometimes go to black and what they are doing, this is realtime live video from major intersections throughout the district. For example, we have florida avenue, bening road, pennsylvania avenue, first street and potomac avenue southeast. Around 8 00, that is when the snow table will send out the trucks to pretreat the roads with salt brine and then 200 trucks will be deployed. If youre out and about, stay away. Give these guys and women working out there time and room so that they can get t make the roads safer for all of us. Youre now going to hear from the d. C. Department of public works director. Lets hear what he has to say. We have had very dangerously low temperatures. Any amount of precipitation can create ice and black ice, whether its half an inch tomorrow or, like i said, it can affect traffic. Reporter