They are not deploying in earnest until 8 00 tonight. You can see in the distance, that is not snow. That is clear sky in the distance. We are not flurries at the moment. They have pretreated the roads heavily. They are ready when it starts. Pretreatment helps for a while but they will put the trucks out to keep roads moving well as the evening goes on. Reporting live, im tom roussey, abc7 news. Alison tom, thank you very much. We all know it doesnt take much during a commute to cause major problems. Look at this on 66. Although that is always tough this time of day. Lets check in with Jamie Sullivan for the latest. Jamie a lot of heavy traffic. 66 heading outbound bumper to bumper delays. This is not because of the weather. This is just the typical afternoon. Maybe a few people left early to try to avoid any of weather coming in. That is why we are seeing so much congestion. Around the capital beltway, both the givener loop and the outer loop heavy. Inner loop north from mcclain to Mo
Snow will develop at 9 00 and continue through the early overnight hours. Waking up tomorrow morning most of the snow is gone. It is cold out there. Well below freezing. Look for slick sidewalks and, of course, a slow go from the Early Morning rush hour commute. High temperatures tomorrow will eventually make it in the middle 30s. And we will see more sunshine as we move in the afternoon hours. Coming up in a few minutes, once the snow is gone this weekend we will deal with the brutal wind chill factors. More on that with the chief meteorologist doug hill in a few minutes. Maureen thank you so much. Now for the first measurable snow of the season we are bringing out snowtrak7. Remember that . Tom roussey is tracking conditions in the Frederick County area. How is it out there . Tom hey, maureen. We are in snowtrak7. There is no snow to track yet. It should change as the night goes on. Area. This is how it looks. We are headed southbound to upper montgomery county. Things are moving fin
Eastern shore. You can always download the nbc washington app. You could do that now from your phone. Our Team Coverage continues now with a look at how road crews are going to be going after this first snow of the season. News4s Mark Segraves is in montgomery county. Reporter take a look at i270 here in rockville. Things look great. We were seeing flurries here since about 3 00. About ten minutes ago the flurries and the wind completely died down. Now its just a clear, crisp evening. Crews have been working around the clock getting ready for whatever comes our way. Crews have been busy treating roads across our region all day. In the district, snow prep began yesterday. Weve been pretreating roads based on the current forecast from the National Weather its mostly been a hot mix of brine and beet juice. Reporter theyre getting ready in virginia as well where chopper 4 caught an aerial view of snow prep in action. Yesterday morning we were out brining all of our systems, the hot spots,
If you dont need to be on the roads, dont do it. Tonights not really one of those nights. These are the areas of biggest concern to the north, winchester, leesburg. Down to the south a winter storm watch for the saturday storm. Ill have it all coming up for you in about 15 minutes. Team coverage continue nos with a look at how road crews are getting ready for whatever snow falls. Reporter 270 behind ne me i rockville. Crews have been working around the clock preparing for this. Well be ready tonight. We have staff already coming on board. We will be ready with our crews tonight to prepare to take care of whatever snow co. Ready tonight to make sure tomorrow mornings rush haur is smooth as possible. There will be trucks out out major state roads and highways this afternoon prepping for that. We just ask folks to give those trucks a little bit of room, let them operate. As they spray that pretreating youll see a gray streak on the highways to let you know the pretreating has taken place.
8 oclock tonight until aboutilt 2 oclock or 3 oclock in theloe morning. Temperatures are superures sup important and it is cold outits there and once it does startsta to snow this is going to t stick. Ick. There will be some slick spotspo on untreated surfaces butfaces youve seen these road crews,re they have been scrambling theyit dont want an inch of snow tonot cause problems so theyre t trying to get ahead of it and hopefully the timing will beg lb good that the road crews willt e be out there working overnightvn to keep you safe tomorrowro inrning. But its already 30 in gaithersburg, 31 in dulles, 30s, at frederick and were headed ha for the 20s once the snow t s gets started so a look allooal right evening planner so you have an idea of what you need yn get through for the next the n several hours. Rs well probably see flurriesur around 7 oclock with a temperature of 32. Ou by 7te 9 oclock its snowing, and by 11 oclock, itoclock, continues snowing atco 30 dntegrees as we head for