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Im eun yang. Im chris lawrence. Aaron has the morning off and well check in with your weather, see what its going to be like heading into christmas weekend. Before we go to your forecast, we have breaking news on the roads. We go to jack taylor in for melissa mollet. Jack, what are you seeing . The tough part its in centreville, 28 at 66. As you see on the picture, take a look at this. Southbound travel, where everything is lit up. The only thing moving is the ramp from 66 west to go 28 north. The truck, the tractortrailer and the car were all involved in the crash. Now were hearing hazmat has been requested because of a possible fuel spill. There is no access from northbound 28 staying on 28 past 66. You must exit on to 66 east. The ramp to northbound 28 remains closed. 66 west is, again, the only traffic moving on to northbound 28. Selfdivert early if you can. Make alternate plans if youre trying to get to Dulles International airport. In. Heres what we have going on, on the roads. W
Lets check out today with the forecast Sheena Parveen standing by with everything you need to know, especially if you are trying to book it out the door. Sheena. Yes, erika, because we know today is a big travel day. Good news though the weather will be cooperating. But the roads will be very busy. 40 degrees right now. Chilly out there. Probably still want the warm jacket and through the day today i think you can use it. Sunny skies in the forecast all day long. Looking at nice dry conditions even as we end out the week. Look at the temperatures elsewhere. We saw upper 30s on the map. Clinton and kwau clinton. But in the afternoon mid40s. Chilly today. Nice weather through the end of the week for travel. But for the weekend we may have some issues developing depending where you are heading. And watching Christmas Day i have the updated forecast. Thats straight head, but for now you have a good travel forecast. In a matter of hours the roads will swell. News4 megan cmcgraph is working
Yeah, everybody is going to be on the big major roads as everybody getting out of town fofrt holidays or coming into town, either way. Temperature wise its a chilly one and weve started to see the wind pickup here in the last 15 minutes or so giving us a little bit of a wind chill. Right now the temperature 43 degrees d. C. , 42 up towards the hagerstown area. Much warmer to the west. Notice, it is 58 degrees in charles town, west virginia. So, watch out for that as we move through the rest of the night tornt. It is going to cool quickly. Tomorrow a pretty nice looking friday. Were tracking your travel plans. The big issue is saturday. Well have much more information on that. And looking at a cold christmas. Not just a cold christmas, but a frigid last week of december. Were going to talk much more about that as well and our snow chances because we have a few of those coming up over the next couple of days. Theres our shot right now of our holiday lights. You can see everything lit up
Warmer air moving in and rain and colder air and a chance of snow, as well, all in the forecast. Coming together to honor members of our community who are often overlooked. Why organizers picked tonight for their homeless vigil. On whats expected to be the busiest travel day of the season, were taking a close look at how the weather could impact your big holiday plans. Take a look at the rain that will make its way into our region. Folks, well be on a weather roller coaster and there is a chance for snow in the lead up to christmas day. Doug is tracking all of it from the storm center, doug, break it down. We have big changes over the next couple days from the High Temperature in the tenday to 64 on saturday with a good chance of rain to a temperature of 29 and a good chance of snow all in the same forecast. Thats what well be watching. Out there now, a cold night tonight. 38 currently, thats up agr 35, 33 richmond, some areas are in the 20s. Ocean city 27 but notice the 50s just back