Maryland. Some spots well over a foot. Most of the areas inside the beltway probably a solid 4 to 8 inches of snow. 1 to 4 inches across southern maryland. Ill show you the timing of that coming up. Right now, lets go over to Melissa Mollet who has issues on indian head highway. Breaking news, indian head highway northbound after the beltway, this section that hits after the beltway, all lanes blocked there because of this investigation. If youre coming northbound up indian head highway, use oxen head road, livingston road to get around this westbound 32 at 95, right lane getting by. Northbound, southbound on 270, looking good. A live look at the key bridge, no major problems. Want to go back to that problem now, northbound indian head highway, justin finch is out there now for us live. Hi, justin. Melissa, good morning. Prince georges county police a injury crash out here. Two cars are involved, a mercedes suv and a white dodge sedan. Were told that dodge was going northbound on india
Coming in this afternoon. Could be a little wet rain snow combination south and east of i95. Dont have any advisories in calvert or st. Marys county. However theres quite a bit of snow in the forecast. A solid 4 to 8 inches inside the beltway. 8 to 12 inches for much of western fairfax, loudoun and montgomery counties. A lot of places in Northern Maryland and the panhandle of West Virginia have a chance of getting more than a foot of snow. Melissa mol llet has more troub for inbound travels. Chopper 4 over indian head highway at beltway. Now after the beltway, we are shut down. The chopper showing you a live look there. Look at that traffic there headed inbound. It has started to build here in the past couple of minutes. All lanes blocked there due to the investigation. You can use oxon hill road and livingston to get as you widen out to the rest of the beltway, beltway is okay. Inbound 66 at the rosslyn tunnel, we have that crash. Green line, normal service resumed. Well look at some
Were joined by storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell who gets us started with the latest on the snow forecast. Chuck, good morning. Good morning. Yes, indeed, keeping a close eye on radar for a chance for accumulating snow is coming our way and arrives late today into the overnight hours tonight. Winter storm warnings are up. Skies are mostly sunny for now, that wont be the case for much longer, clouds race in during the afternoon. Winter storm warnings, all of these bright pink counties montgomery, arlington, fairfax and everywhere north and west of the corridor winter storm warning. Anne arundel, towards fredericksburg, widespread amounts from the northwest suburbs of washington and north and westbound of pennsylvania border. Widespread amounts of 6 inches or more are likely. Right here in washington, an inch is a sure bet. Im competent well get to 4 to 5 inches, confidence in more than that is starting to fade as the newer computer guidance is indicating that the rain snow line may
Much as you move to the south and east. Richmond starting to see rain moving in. Temperatures there are falling. That may start off as rain. The temperatures tonight are going to have a big issue on how this storm impacts us. We just used this digital thermometer and checked the pavement temperatures in northwest. They were at 63 degrees. Thats the power of that strong march sun. All around the region weve got pavement temperatures around 60 degrees. Hovering in the mid 40s in washington. We have the temperatures in the mid 40s across most of virginia. Now, here is the timeline for tonight. Snow beginning by about 8 00 p. M. Coming in from the south. It will likely be mixing with some sleet and rain along the i95 corridor an and east. Going to be a lot of rain there. The highest accumulations of snow are looking west of the i95 corridor. This is a classic noreaster situation with the rain snow line right on i95 or maybe just a bit to the west. Were just getting word that some schools i
Around the region. Going to take a while for temperatures to cool down. Once that snow starts, we are going to see the temperatures really begin to drop once that snow begins. Look hour by hour into the evening hours. By 8 00 light snow starts to fall into the metro area. Well be into the upper 30s by then. Thats when were going to start seeing the snow pick up in intensity, 11 00. By dawn tomorrow well have a mix of rain and sleet in the metro area. Temperatures hovering right near the freezing mark. By 11 00 a. M. On tuesday were going to see the snow showers just coming and going and tapering off. That rain snow line so critical. Im going to have an updated forecast for you including a new map to show you. The parking restrictions and the closures are starting to take effect now just ahead of the storm. News4 is watching those roads for you in maryland. Mark segraves has been hes live in frederick this evening to tell you how people are preparing. Reporter if youre with us here at 4