After 8 00. How the person got there is a bigger mystery. There are unconfirmed reports that the person may have jumped from a car on the beltway. At one point one lane was getting by on the outer loop, two lanes getting by on the inner loop. That resulted in a huge backup. Mystery is how this person got on to the beltway. That person was taken to the hospital we are told with nonlife threatening injuries. Investigators are on their way to talk to this person. Again the mystery has not cleared up though the traffic has indeed cleared up. As to how a pedestrian in the dark got on to the beltway and was struck by perhaps more than one vehicle. To our weather now. One of the coldest nights of the seensz. Parts of the area already below freezing. Its only midnovember. Not even talking just below freezing. We are down around 20 degrees in parts of the area. That with the wind, windchills already in the teens. 36 in the d. C. Area. O stanton, virginia, 21 degrees right now. Something else we
Territory. The gusts already doing some damage. This scaffolding in downtown d. C. Just no match for mother nature. Well get to more of that damage in just a minute but were starting tonight in the Weather Center with amelia because of the dangerous weather conditions. Just how bad will it get . From right now to midMorning Hours tomorrow thats when the winds are the strongest and the temperatures are going to be dangerously cold. You want to avoid being outdoors so some safety tips for you tonight and throughout the day tomorrow. Because of the string windsong winds, we have reports of power outages, you want to sleep away from trees. If you sleep upstairs in a bedroom with a tree outside of the window consider sleeping down stairs tonight. Parking on a street with a lot of trees, try to park jomsomewhere else. Avoid being outside tonight or tomorrow morning. Factoring in the winds. If you have to travel make sure you travel with a full tank of gas and of course have your phone with a
We were all looking outside of the belfort furniture Weather Center window and we are already starting to see the sleet coding the trees. This is the warm air intrusion, the pink over charles and prince georges counties the milder air working its way in, especially into the d. C. Metro area, within the capital beltway, the transition from snow to sleet. Even though the snow is stopping for some of us it is still falling heavy in frederick and loudoun counties. A bit of improvement as you get further west come into the i7881 corridor. The winter storm warning in effect for the d. C. Area. The National Weather Service Extended the warning to include d. C. Arlington, alexandria. Really messy conditions outside. The roads are completely snowcovered and its a very complex and dynamic weather system, which is one of the reason that the snows squall totals exceeded expectations. The temperature has been so critical, and we are slowly starting to see that rise. Meteorologist steve rudin takes
This is Montgomery County around norbeck road in rockvail. The biggest storm of the season. Everything turning to wintry mix and thats why were starting here. Whats on the radar right now . Freezing rain and rain in other spots. Temperatures will warm overnight and well slowly see conditions improve and gettin reports of icy sidewalks and snowcovered roads tonight. Heres the latest look of radar right now. The d. C. Metro area tracking mainly rain showers. Green is rain. The pink is freezing rain and potentially little bit of sleet mixing in so you can see an areas of frederick, loudon seeing the wintry mix. Montgomery county arlington and washington mainly only rain right now. This is the storm system. We have a little bit more of rain and freezing rain to move through the area during the overnight hours. You can see areas like leesburg getting in on the freezing rain. Wall of rain. Heres the look at current temperatures. So washington above freezing right now. But then you have leesb
Stronger than even with our typical winter passage. We have a high wind warning in effect outlined in orange. Gusts to 60 Miles Per Hour are possible. Current temperature is down to 16 in chevy chase, 14 in damascus and rockville. 15 in restton. Keep in mind that our High Temperatures got into the 40s for many. With the wind we already feel like were below in arlington and at dulles where the windchill factor is negative 4. The wind gust tracker showing really strong winds out of the northwest. Everywhere that you see the yellow shading indicates wind in excess of 40 miles an hour. Its not going to get any better until at least sunday evening. This is what you can expect with this arctic blast. You need to make sure you leave the Cabinet Doors open if you live in an older house to prevent those pipes from busting. Its going to stay well below freezing and actually possibly even staying in the Single Digits in some spots for the next 24 hours plus so the pipes could freeze if youre not