Two hours late. Falls church city schools are on a twohour delay. In maryland, calvert, charles, allegheny and Frederick County schools are on a twohour delay. Now to the closures in virginia. Spotsylvan spotsylvania, Prince William, westmoreland, stafford, fairfax, loudoun, Arlington County schools all closed. Manassas city and alexandria schools closed as well. Anne arundel, montgomery, Prince Georges County schools in maryland are also closed today. The federal government is on a twohour delay this morning with the option for a scheduled leave for telework. Well, good morning. We are watching the snow very closely. Heres a live look at the radar. Were seeing the snow bands across the area, except winchester, warrenton. Maybe flurries in inland, in the district, much of Northern Virginia, maryland, the storm system centered offshore. All snow this morning. As you head out, keep in mind, a lot of the roads are snowcovered except the main roads that have been continuing to be treated.
Higher amounts to the east, as we expected. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] it is chilly out there, and the wind will become the big story over the next 24 hours. Here is what it looks like. Snow from georgia to north florida. This is the storm that almost looks like a hurricane as it rapidly moves on off to the northeast. This storm will eventually move on out of here rather quickly. Look at the snow totals national zoo a little over half inch of us know. In mount vernon. Temperatures outside right now, if you are going to be out and about for the lunch hour, it is cold. 22 degrees in burke. Newington at 24 degrees. Clouds and radar does show most of the activity moving out for the east. What you see around the d. C. Metro area is not going to expected. This will continue a little bit longer until 6 00 p. M. Windchill factors as the winds begins to pick up will take a dive later t
Roadways. Julie is tracking that. Lets start with veronica johnson. Veronica if you have to go outside, make sure you are prepared, dress in layers. Temperatures are below zero. This morning, even layered up, i have been shivering. Mind, all the signs of hypothermia. You dont want to feel lightheaded or dizzy. We talk about heat stress, but there is a thing called cold stress. It is minus four in d. C. Minus six lovettsville into leesburg. Traveling, the cold temperatures down to atlanta. Freezing, atlanta, georgia, even around nashville. And the other thing we may have to worry about. Julie tell the truth, the reason everything hurts is because you are trying to dance like a new robot from the jayz video. Veronica i thought you were going to say i am getting old. I see veronica trying to do the robot like this. We are dealing with a water main break 27th street south before you reach virginia avenue. Southbound lanes are closed. This will be the scenario for the next 10 to 12 hours. R
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
Here is the latest radar over the past hour. It is already showing up in clarksburg. You folks down south dont have much to worry about, most of this will pull out to the north of you over the next 6 hours. This is mainly an ice event not a snow event. A wintry mask risk is high but accumulations are low. It will slow your evening commute so you will need extra time and slow down. We will come back and talk about when temperatures get above freezing. You can always download our weather app for the latest watches and warnings. A dramatic fire this morning in the wagt boats, firefighters prevented the flames from spreading further but both of those boats sink. Luckily there were no injuries but investigators are still trying to determine the cause. Flooding on the top two floors has closed ross elementary school. Officials from the school say engineers have diagnosed the problem and are working to resolve them. Once the building is evacuated and cleared the school anticipates classes wil