Roads and caught several drivers off guard. You saw it first on fox 5 last night. Now metro is apologizing for the massive meltdown on the green line. Lets begin with the Winter Weather alert. A bitter blast of arctic air and the possibility of snow that could make a bit of a mess of your morning commute, a one two punch tonight. Im brian bolter. Im shawn yancy. Yesterday we hit 70 degrees and now were talking snow. Sue palka is in the Weather Center with what we can expect next. Im going to be sad to see january go because this has been an amazing month, youre absolutely right. We continue to track another system that look as though its going to be pretty light along the lines of what we had friday evening for our commute. You can see it back here. Its a healthy looking little clipperlike system. Lets get a closer look as we go to our sentinel radar here. This system is moving out of kentucky and tennessee. It has been able to drop a small amount of snow. As it gets closer to our area
Yes, true. If you look out the window, youll probably seeing the snow flying. We are talking about the potential for maybe an inch of snow. The temperatures below freezing and a little bit of moisture out there. You know what falls in that snow. You can see the radar starting to break out across the region. This is very light. Not all of this touching the ground. The timing is not fantastic as it will be moving through here the next couple of hours. I think by 8 00, 9 00, most it was should be out of here. Temperatures have fallen below freezing. Julie will have more on the roads. I noticed they were out throwing down sand and salt. I think that most of what falls will get a chance to stick out there as temperatures are pretty cold. Lets go to max 2. Reagan national is reporting a temperature of 34 degrees but both dulles and bwi marshall have dipped below freezing. Winter weather advisory in effect. Im show you that and we have more snowflakes in the weekend forecast as well. Back to
There is the potential for a light accumulation, maybe 1 2 inch, maybe in a few spots up to an inch of snow. Temperature have fallen generally across the region below freezing. Anything that falls will get a chance to kind of stick out there on the roadways. We could have a few travel issues here early this morning as the snow continues to fall into a very cold air mass across the region. The good news is the whole thing will get out of here by 8 00, 9 00 this morning. Well start to see some sunshine this afternoon although things will remain cold. 36 in washington. 31 out at dulles. Bwi marshall, 30 degrees. So plenty cold for the snow to stick in the area with the exception of reagan national. The Weather Service issued this Winter Weather advisory about an hour ago. This is in effect through 10 00 a. M. Giving you the heads up that well get some snow but i just told you that. So there you go. Temperatures will top out in the mid30s. It will be cold and windy today particularly this
From the tolls out to the toll way, greenway, thats crazy. You told us this was coming. The fear was, its coming during morning rush hour. Temperatures overnight in the 20s, and obviously not a good combination with the snow. And doesnt take a lot to cause a lot of problems when it comes to snow. Couple of flurries at this point. The trend will be to get the snow out of here shortly. Most of that should be across the bay in the next hour or so. Should break out in sunshine. Breezy and cold this afternoon. Its important you know that. Cold this afternoon. Current temperature at Reagan National, 30 degrees. Thats it. Where weve had accumulating snow, will stick around later today. 26 at dulles. 28 bwi marshall. Theres your advisory. In effect until 10 00 this morning. Winter weather advisory for the counties in close. Would not be surprised if they let this go shortly. Snow showers transitioning to sunshine and a lot of wind. Winds out of the north and west gusting to 25. Wont feel like
All the girls attend local area high schools and those are the victims here. Just something you wouldnt expect out of this school. I mean, all these people, i have known those kids, they went to our elementary school. We have known them for a long time. You never think one of your friends could do that stuff. All right, back here live, police say all of the alleged victims and suspects knew each other. They arent sure if there might be anymore alleged victims out there, but they are putting the word if anyone was a part of this to come forward. It isnt clear if more people are involved or more charges might be filed. This investigation is clearly on going. In fairfax county, maurine, fox 5 news. Brian. The edge on d. C. Now. A big announcement. The districts chief Financial Officer is leaving his job later this year. Since 2000, he became cfo. Now he has been cheered by some, jeered by others. The news comes days after he announced the district had a huge surplus. Matt acklin is live w