Im laura garciacannon. And im scott mcgrew in for sam brock. Lets get your morning started with a look at a humid forecast. How about we pick up the bay area and move it to miami . We are going to feel the humidity increasing. If you think its muggy this morning. Thats nothing compared to what will have today and theres a heat advisory in effect. It mostly includes the hills where temperatures will reach over 100. We do have some lightning and some rain just offshore just across the Central Coast and just to the southwest of here. Ill be tracking that as it moves closer to the bay area. More details on that coming up. Mikes tracking two crashes right now. Youre tracking lightning, im tracking just two crashes. Overall the Speed Sensors look great for the bay area freeway except for up here. This is southbound highway 242. That crash still blocks your fast lane and your slow from highway 4. The longer route is the better route. We do have inth overturned big rig which caused a 238 offra
Im laura garciacannon. And im scott mcgrew in for sam brock. Lets get your morning started with a look at a humid forecast. How about we pick up the bay area and move it to miami . We are going to feel the humidity increasing. If you think its muggy this morning. Thats nothing compared to what will have today and theres a heat advisory in effect. It mostly includes the hills where temperatures will reach over 100. We do have some lightning and some rain just offshore just across the Central Coast and just to the southwest of here. Ill be tracking that as it moves closer to the bay area. More details on that coming up. Mikes tracking two crashes right now. Youre tracking lightning, im tracking just two crashes. Overall the Speed Sensors look great for the bay area freeway except for up here. This is southbound highway 242. That crash still blocks your fast lane and your slow from highway 4. The longer route is the better route. We do have inth overturned big rig which caused a 238 offra
With meteorologist Amelia Draper with a check of the forecast. Its cold out there. So many people weighing in and saying its freezing outside. Its not actually freezing. But when you factor in the winds, that is how its feeling right now. Were at 37 degrees. And look at the winds, coming out of the northwest at about 18 miles per hour. So when you add in the winds, this is how cold its feeling right now. Feeling like were in the 20s across the area. About 27 in washington, 22 in frederick and o 19 degrees back in winchester. The good news, we have plenty of sunshine in the forecast and we will keep it mainly dry today. But look at how its going to feel at 8 00 p. M. This evening. A as you head out to dinner or holiday parties, feels like temperatures in the 20s. So make sure you bundle up. Ill be walking through your saturday, hour by hour and letting you know how cold its going to be tomorrow. Thanks amelia. Im Melissa Mollet at the says metro is making headway when it comes to reduci
Not ready for any snow. No thank you. Hopefully it stays far away. But first, hope youre having a good start to your friday morning. Im adam tuss. And im susan hogan. We begin with the weather and snowshowers to our north, this video you see right there is from mount airy in frederick county, maryland. Its not expected to accumulate. But it could slow people down. Lets turn to storm team 4 meteorologist Amelia Draper for more. You can see on storm team 4 radar, some widely scattered snowshowers showing up on the radar. Including here in washington. Everybody at the station peeking out the window. It looks like a buble snow globe. It looks pretty, not accumulating at all. And once the snowshowers pass through, were going to be dry for the rest of the day. As we continue to sink into parts ever southern maryland, seeing sprinkles across the area. I want to show you where it is snowing. Were seeing snow in parts of northwest washington leaving bethesda, around the bowie area, along the be
Breaking overnight with at least five weatherrelated deaths, four people died late monday after a tree fell on a mobile home in alabama, the authorities believe it was knocked over by a tornado. In florida, a man accidentally drowned after they found him floating next to his partially submerged car next to his trailer. In mississippi, the National Weather service confirmed a tornado near mount olive and thousands lost power. Flash flood warnings remain in effect from western alabama through western south carolina, and millions remain on alert for more potential thunderstorms and tornadoes. Nbcs jacob rascon tracking it from dallas. A messy start to the new year across the country. The south pummeled by severe thunderstorms. A tornado touching down in mississippi. Flash flood warnings in jackson, alabama, damage in marksville, louisiana and a direct hit in houston, texas where Kevin Masterson says lightning caused a fire in his house while he was still inside. You could tell it was bad