Calvert county schools are closed. In virginia arlington county, alexandria city and Falls Church City schools on a twohour delay. Fairfax county and Loudoun County no school today. Youre closed. Prince william, spotsylvania and Stafford County schools also closed. Manassas city and Manassas Park schools are closed. Also the federal government is open on time today. You can see all the latest closings and delays, they are scrolling along the bottom of your screen. And also on fox5d. C. Com and on the fox5 news and weather apps. Lets get right to Tucker Barnes for a first check on our forecast this morning and i can only assume from the School Closings its because of the cold because were not expecting accumulation, right, tuck. I think its a combination of some of the leftover snow and ice from yesterday and certainly these bitter cold temperatures and the wind chills right now pretty extraordinary here. Getting minus numbers for just about everybody. There are your wind chills. You pr
Cold though. Yeah, just incredible how clean and how far you can see with this air arctic air in place. What is not pleasant being outside though. Just want to show you those are all wind chill advisories. Its not just here in washington, its up and down the eastern seaboard in fact all the northeast under either wind chill advisories or wind chill warnings and we, too, are under that advisory right through the noon hour. The reason why right now. Heres wait feels like outside when you step out this morning. Feels like minus three here in the city, minus seven out at dulles. Minus seven in hagerstown. Winds blowing out of the north and west about 25 to 30 with air temperatures in the low teens and upper Single Digits. Ill have all the details on a very, very brutally cold forecast coming up in just a minute guys. Back to you. Actually at 7 oclock this morning the frigid weather is our big story. Today will bring record breaking cold air and bitter winds. Parts of new england will feel
Reporter yes, thats right. I have his gloves on. And doug said it. Even if youre bundled up the way i am, it still goes right through you. Were by the clarenden metro station. When people get off they are moving quickly because it is dangerously cold. Im the one going to freeds out here. They told me it was going to be below 10 tonight. How am i going to survive out here . Reporter kevin waters said he might sleep on the street in arlington tonight. He told us nearby shelters were full. We called and they said theyd look for kevin because they never turn people away. The lady brought me two blankets, small blankets right here. Its hard, you know what i mean . It is real hard out here. Reporter wind chills are near 0 and falling dangerously. Im really from up north, boston, and this feels like boston. This feels like boston, yeah, its that cold. Yeah, this is boston cold. Reporter deborah greenfield positive this is just too cold for arlington. Because its just to the bone. It cuts thro
There. Some places feels like negative degrees. Unbelievable. That girl said it best, right, chuck bell . Cant have enough layers on. Keep on layering. Thats the only advise for today. The wind will not be as much of an issue tomorrow, but the northwest wind, which has been driving the ever colder air into the region, that is still with us here this morning. It will be with us for the remainder of the Daylight Hours this afternoon. Current temperatures, these are the air temperatures, not the wind chills, were all generally above zero, with the lone exception being warrington, virginia. Minus one. Hats off to you, below zero this morning. Most of the suburbs at 10 degrees downtown. Not much of a warmup today. Single numbers between now and 8 00 in the morning. Then a slow rise to the upper teens to maybe as much as 20 degrees. Were in weather alert mode because of the wind chill advisory. Wind chills will be running below zero for most of the morning and only recovering a little later
Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. Thanks for joining us on this weather alert day. A few School Closures we are learning about in maryland. Frederick, howard and anne arundel schools will close three hours early. Montgomery schools will close two and a half hours early. Charles and Prince Georges County schools will close two hours early. Afternoon and evening activities including the board of education meeting are canceled. In virginia, Prince William county schools are closing three hours early. Arlington and alexandria city will close two hours early. Falls church city schools are on an Early Release schedule and day care will close at 4 00 p. M. There. A lot of other districts canceled classes because of the extreme cold. The early dismissals and cancellations are closing in the bottom of the screen and theyre in the nbc washington app. Lets head causing these delays and Early Releases. Along the periphery we have the wintry weather and this is going to be causing a real headache fo