Progression off the coast of north carolina. Were expecting the storm to move to the north and cutback in toward the coast tomorrow or tonight into tomorrow. But for now that distant position is improving the forecast in a couple of ways. You can see the main body of rain is well to the north, a little bit of shower activity is pushing to the south and dissipating. In fact as we look at the local view we had showers south of baltimore, they have evaporated and pushed to the south. This may be the way radar looks all day today. If we see any sprinkle or shower its along the coast. We dont expect much. Inland everything is looking good, a little breezy, but a good day to get out and do whatever you want to do. What has not changed is the issues with the heavy surf and coastal flooding. Were looking at 9foot waves long beach island. 8foot in Atlantic City. 76 7 and 6 in the mouth of the delaware bay. That rip current action is continuing along the ocean and youre strongly discouraged from
Properties and left hundreds of thousand without power from florida to virginia. The sun is shining, but the water is down right dangerous. We have reports at the shore and david murphy and chris sowers are tracking the storm. David we have new model information. Reporter things are tracking in our favor, although its still a strong storm and presents concerns to us. The movement is taking the storm farther away from us, although im beginning to detect a curve to the north that we are expecting later today. Eventually well see it dive back toward the coastline later tonight and tomorrow before it does another turn and goes on out to sea. As it comes back looks like it will strengthen a little bit. Its so far to the east the impact on the jersey shore may not be as severe as originally thinking. Because the storm is so far away, any rain we saw earlier has dissipated off the maps. Well see sun and clouds, maybe a few clouds later today pushing in from the east. Storm tracker 6 live doub
Affect the road conditions, were talking about that momentarily. About 5 and a half inches right now outside. Were seeing the transition from snow to icy mix that we will see the rest of the afternoon. Noreen Mona Kosar Abdi is driving around. What you finding out there . Reporter we are driving down word road, which is an example of a primary roads that lynchburg public works has been working all morning. It is in need of a good plow. The road is barely visible. It is hard to tell which lane youre driving in. Right now, were going about 22 Miles Per Hour on a road that is typically a 35 mile an hour road. The crews have been coming down and plowing roads. Snowfall, they have not been able to make a dent. In the last hour, we caught up with the lynchburg public works director who told us the plow Truck Drivers are working on a twopart system. First, they clear the roads and then they add salt for traction. She also tells us that right now we are getting a selfsleet mix and that is maki
150,000 left in their budget. Theyre asking the public to be patient as they try to get to all the roads in the next few days. We only have enough trucks to work on primary and secondary, so this will be our priority. Anchor and lowes also had all of their snow prep and removal items on deck. They have been in touch with their fulfillment warehouse. In roanoke, Officials Say that crews have been retreating roads throughout the day. And now that snow is falling, hour removal effort. Officials in danville say they began treating the roads there with brine on friday. Were told the decision was made to start early because the frigid temperatures weve seen this weekend could have caused that brine to freeze. It takes crews an average of three hours to pretreat the thorough fares. Just a short time ago, first responderers here in lynchburg had to deal with their first weatherrelated crash. They say a woman slid off the road and her car burst into flames. It happened just before 9 00 p. M. On
Highs reach into the 40s for the 3afternoon. 3 3pattie tight the snow started falling in lynchburg last evening. Lets check in with Mona Kosar Abdi here in lynchburg. Mona any problems on the roads . Mona 3pattie plasma3 lynchburg public works works has been working overnight to try to keep the roads clear. Yesterday, we spoke to the director of lynchburg public works who says crews took all the precautions necessary to be ready for this round of Winter Weather. After our last winter storm, public works said they had about 150thousand dollars left in their snow budget which snow and ice. Theyre asking the public to be patient as they try to get to all roads over the next few days. Gaynell hart, public works director just as a reminder we only have enough trucks to work on primary and secondary roads so those will be our priority until we get those passable. 8 public works crews werent the only ones getting ready. Lowes also had all of their snow prep and removal items on deck. Sales As