How expansive this cold is. Its snowing just south of new orleans right now. The cold air all the way down to the gulf coast state, now for us in our region, you know its on the cold side. Today a little better than it was yesterday, but look at these numbers right now. These are the current wind chills across the midatlantic. 18 . D. C. , 13 in hagerstown, 2 in state college. Yesterday we had negative numbers. It is 3 below towards columbus, ohio. And we have colder air moving in. It wont be tomorrow, though. Right now temperatures 26 degrees in d. C. , 25 in reston, 22 the current temperature in gaithersburg. So, another day that is below freezing and thats why the potomac is frozen. And its going to get a lot more frozen over the next couple of days because we have colder air coming in. Frigid air continues. We might get freezing in spots but not a lot. Tracking storm for thursday, a chance for snow in parts of the area. Not everybody is going to see it but im going to break it down
Storm system taking shape. Its going to deposit some significant snow at the coast and then for us it whips in dangerous cold that follows behind that storm and that is in the friday, saturday timeframe. Speaking of snow, while we dont have any advisories here in our area, look at this, weve got Winter Weather advisories all the way down to the jacksonville area in florida. They run right up the cost all the way to main and in our area we have some winter storm watches that will gin tomorrow night for the coast al area. Four to six inches possible. This is a watch so that means the potential is there much its not in the forecast yet. But that would be arriving around thursday morning commute. So it could be quite challenging for areas especially over at beaches and on the other side of the bay. Right here locally maybe some flurries along i95. A possible coating. That is it. No advisories for us just yet. Were going to especially keep an eye on this sysm going to your knowledge you to
Year in the mid 40s. Yes, we get into the 20s, but normally for a couple of days. Not for numerous days in a row. We have a lot more coming. Frigid weather continues. Tracking the storm for thursday, continuing to get more information and just got another computer model that just came in. Were going to talk about that in just a second. And coldest air yet moves in. One thing for sure about this system, its the cold air, the coldest by far, we will be well, well below 0 by the time you go to sleep thursday night and wake up friday morning. All right. Doug, thanks for the warning. Well, you bundled up your kids so tightly for the bus stop you could hardly see their faces. And as students get back into the swing of school this week, some are poking fun at that bone chilling weather out there. The richer Montgomery High School is tweeting 500 below 0. News4s Meagan Fitzgerald live in Fairfax County where it is so cold, some of the buses wont work. Reporter wendy, thats exactly right. Up to
Es. Theres the potential for several inches of snow at the beaches. Here in d. C. If we see flurries thats probably going to be it. Were not going to be having any Winter Weather advisories in zc. If you live east of 95 were going to have to watch that area closely. 25 degrees as you know, 17 for cincinnati, chicago only six, give a little different view here, minute annapolis 12 rbgs everybody is cold. Atlanta 35, wilmington, 31. Even down to dallas at 36. Southern florida and a little bit of the southwestern us, that is all about it. We are all in the deep freeze. Watching for potential accumulating snow across the bay, salsbury, ocean city, the winter storm watch is coming up and well have some headlines for the potential of the snow that could be disruptive thursday morning. Not expecting it here in d. C. Or points west. The cold is going to be denied. The search is on tonight for two men who police say tried to kidnap an eight Year Old Girl this morning in a toe mona park neighbor
If it was 25 today, it could be 40 degrees colder than that or at least feel 40 degrees colder by friday morning. Thats the kind of cold air were talking about. Doug, thank you. Its hard to keep the chill from getting into the house right now. You probably needed an extra layer at work, too. Its the same at some local schools. Check out this retweet from our scott macfarlane. It shows 48 degrees inside a Montgomery County classroom today. But for another School District, the trouble started even before the bell rang. News4s Meagan Fitzgerald is in Fairfax County. Meagan, what was the issue with the buses . Reporter well, Fairfax County officials tell us the problem is the school buses have been sitting outside in the freezing cold weather like they are behind me here for the last two weeks while students were on winter break. So, this morning when they started them up, some of them didnt turnover. Others broke down later. But this is just one of several issues we saw in School District