5 00, im chris mackinnon. And im katherine houser. Its chilly and its going to be rainy, too. Danielle, lets get all the details. Steadier rain arrives this evening, but its a damp and chilly start to the month of december. 32 in boston right now. But notice widespread 20s all the way down to the cape this morning and weve gotten this cold because the skies are partially clear. The clouds thicken up across connecticut and then back in through eastern new york and showers. Notice a little bit of pink here showing up in the radar. There may be light pockets of freezing rain in western massachusetts and thats why we have a freezing rain advisory from 6 00 a. M. Until noontime today. West of wuster county. Use precaution as traveling. For the rest of us, the clouds thicken up, our temperatures gradually rise and its after late morning that we get areas in during the afternoon. Steadier pockets of rain, generally light for the evening drive. Temperatures come into the 40s and the rain gets
Great to have you with us, im katherine houser. Its time to flip the calendar. If you still use a calendar. You have your phone, yeah, calendar phone. Its true. I got the new one, too. I got a lot to do, shopping. Im just realizing. We need to check our forecast with danielle. Good morning. I have three calendars at home that i had to flip. Im going to have to do that later today. We turned the calendar and its a cool start this morning. Feeling like december. The temperature in boston is 34 degrees. The dew point is in the 20s and the wind has gone calm in the city. We have frost out there and it is thick in spots. Leave an extra couple minutes to warm up the car. 20s to pittsburgh, 22 in norwood right now. That will have implications on the rain that is moving in. You notice the leading edges there may be a couple spots, particularly west of wuster county. A freezing rain advisory has been post d ed for the western part of the state. For the rest of us, temperatures slowly rise. We s
This is wbz this morning. Good morning, it is tuesday, december 1, can you believe it . I can. December 1. Exciting. Im katherine houser. And im chris mackinnon. Weve been talking about it all morning, its the beginning of metrological winter. Its an important day, danielle. Its like a holiday for danielle. Happy birthday metrological winter. December, january, february for records. And for the fall and autumn period, actually boston tied for the sixth warmest. So we are starting december on a colder note. In fact, cold enough we have a freezing rain advisory that is up until noontime today for western massachusetts, northwest connecticut, theres a low probability this may need to be expanded into worcester county. All it takes is a trace. A tiny trace of freezing rain to create some slippery and icy conditions on the roads in the western part of the state. 34 in boston. Morning. Any sunshine we have this morning will be limited as the clouds will thicken up quickly. You may get a brie
City of boston, plan on temps jadiann time for fast track good morning to you. Rich good morning, jadiann. If youre heading out to work time. Traffics light. No need to rush. No problems on the highway. Thats 93. Look how light that traffic is. No work crews this morning. The gas tank gives it away. The expressway, the south shore ride is sweet. The turnpike, white lights shape. No delays on 495 or route 128 so its good. The t is on time. Rich kirkland, 7 news today in new england. Jadiann thank you. Overnight an intense fire breaking out at a home in lowell. You can see the house completely engulfed in flames. This happened just before midnight on middlesex and baldwin streets. Fire crews tell the lowell sun the house was empty and no one was hurt. The cause is under investigation. Christa a new mother and father who survived this dramatic rollover crash are birth of their healthy baby boy. Just hours after the crash, doctors decided to go ahead and perform an emergency csection. Jadi
Elise finch is here with the forecast. Weve had a couple crisp mornings, so this is no exception. Overall, its a pretty quiet weather. Current temperatures. 10 degrees cooler as we head into the hamptons. Thats just a cold 22 degrees. 28 in sparta and new york city checking in at 41 degrees. Your vortex satellite and radar not showing a lot of activity. An area of High Pressure that is dominating the weather. Things are quiet and by that, i mean dry. And really what happens with this area of High Pressure is monday. About other than those temperatures and then of course we will be watching a system that could bring us some rain. Here is your hour by hour forecast for this saturday. Expecting High Temperature of 52 degrees. We get that with plenty of sunshine and that will feel overall, not a bad day once we get past the morning chill. With that, well send it back to you. We have new details into the investigation of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, california. Tashfeen malik and he