Holiday week. Your news starts now. And we begin with a Winter Weather alert. Temperatures as you know if you stepped outside plummeted below freezing as we head into the new year holiday weekend. And theres also a possibility some areas see snow tonight. Road crews are getting ready and the Virginia Department of transportation says crews will be out this evening to treat the roads. Since roads are cold and any snow will likely stick and drivers license should Pay Attention to ice that may development on wet pavement that will create slick conditions. Vdot is urging drivers to stay off the roads altogether ft. Weather takes a turn. Are we talking significant snow . The districts snow team is going into action. 200 trucks will hit the road and pretreating major highways and primary and secondary and neighborhood routes. Maryland sends out trucks and pretreats corrodes. Person to answer your question is gwen. Gwen, how serious is this. Were not getting a major snowstorm this is a klirp
Snow . Were going to get to gwen with what we can expect. I dont know if im the bearer of good or bad news tonight. I feel like the holiday gr grinch. Cold weather is here to stay the at least for a bit tony and we have another arctic blast coming behind what were already getting and yes, there is snow in my forecast and and temperature and to mannasas, 19 in dulles this hour and frederick is at 18 and 19 hagerstown and 21 cumberland and 23al call paper. These are air temperatures. Factor in the winds and theyre pretty cold and lets see what the wind chill values are. It feels like this if you step outside. 15 d. C. Look at hagerstown and mar martinsburg. Feels like its only a chilly 12 degrees and 21 at winchester and 19 at dulles and 15 baltimore. I want to tell you the morning lows today were 10 dulles and bwi. Heres a look at snow headed our way. Its a very fastmoving clipper system. Its going to stick, however, so we have icy spots to be concern about and were not talking a lot in
Sure looks pretty outside gary. It does, all the snowy rooftops out there. Yes and you know what the snow does when you have a beautiful blanket of light snow is that it lights up that dark sky. It does. So pretty. Listen, it looks like for the most part the snow is over but the cold temperatures are not. One of the this is not really a big deal in terms of snow. Very little snowfall across the region but its so cold and its caused some definitely some slippery conditions out there this morning. Theyre out treating and pretreating but when it gets this cold that doesnt make much of a difference but i just want to show you, theres still technically some Winter Weather advisories in place. All of this is to the north of the city. You know be careful in the city, theres no doubt about that. Give it a couple more hours and it will be a lot better to get around out there if you have to. Again, cold is going to be the big story because theres even colder air coming in tonight. So, the Winter
I feel like its this one is going to be really good. Im feeling good about this, too. The last morning show of 2017. Angie continuing her time off. Were glad to have you with us. Its a cold start on this sunday. Freezing out there. Storm team 4 meteorologist is here. First. We have big news. Oh. Lauren isnt here. Down in North Carolina. Oh, my goodness. She just got married. Congrats to her and her husband eric. Eric there is in uniform. Thats not a costume, folks. Thats a marine serving our country, so she is now celebrating i think shell be gone for a few weekends for good reason. I think this is a point in time where youre allowed to do that. She looks beautiful. Congratulations to them and all the best wishes as we go through the next couple of weeks and months and years and rest of their life and happily ever after, Something Like that, right . Lauren looks so gorgeous, by she does. Theres not a question about that. She looks absolutely gorgeous. I love how the bottom part of our
Thanks for starting your sunday off with us. Well start with a live look outside on december 1, 017. You can almost see how crisp and cool and clear and freezing cold it is outside. Were going to start off with dar gar in the Weather Center this morning keeping an eye on what really has been brutal cold here you. Covered it all, tom, well take it back here then, thank you very much, gary, thanks for seeing you. Very, very cold. You have more . I have to cover two minutes. So ill take my share here. Listen, heres whats going on out there now. Lets just say its going to be an arctic new years eve. This arctic air started last night trickling in and dew points dropping and arctic air is here and it will get colder and colder and windier and windier out there and that will make it feel oh, so cold. And wind chill advisory in place for Northern Virginia and central virgina western virginia and all the way up to mary pennsylvania. And part of this out west is in place. It runs from 9 p. M. T