Could be just hours away. Fox 5 morning news continues right now. Right now. It is friday, february 22nd. Taking a live look outside right now at the Woodrow Wilson bridge. Traffic moving along pretty well right now but as this Winter Weather system moves in, that may be a different story later on today. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. Welcome to fox 5 morning news. Before we get to tucker, pouring snow across parts of the nations midsection and it is having a nationwide impact. Hundreds of flights have been delayed because of the record winter storm that stretches from colorado to kansas. Already, it has dropped as much as 17inched of snow in places. Winter storm warnings are in if he can for parts of kansas, missouri, arkansas, nebraska, iowa and illinois and forecasters say more snow, sleet and freezing rain is on the way today. It has my husband is supposed to fly out heading to minneapolis. Already had a flight canceled trying to get on another one. Did he . A bi
Our bottom line here at the top of the hour, it is a cold, dry day start. Sharon is watching if roads, marty is over at first warning weather. Not dry for too much longer. First warning doppler, this is the im going to the next time im going to switch the next time i give you an update. Theres moisture close to the region. Its going to come in as a bit of very light mixed precip during the midday, turning to all rain. 29 right now is 7 warmer than this time yesterday. By the afternoon rain, 36 maybe 37 as you high. Don, take it away. Thank you. Heres the rush from Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. So far nothing to get in your way if youre headed out for your morning commute. Everything is looking good as far as speeds go. In the 50s and low 60s. 55 is your average on the beltway. So far we dont have any accidents at the moment. Theres a live look outside at the topside of the beltway. Traffic still pretty light in that area. On the west side slightly busier at Baltimore National p
Mid30s and transition most of this to plain old light rain and drizzle. To be honest, it will be a slow go, particularly west of town, where temperatures now are in the mid20s. 34 at reagan national. 31 at dulles. 32 bwi marshall. These temperatures should warm up a little later today as that warmer air up in the upper layers of the atmosphere work their way down. Theres your Winter Weather advisory. Nothing locally along the 95 corridor. Western maryland, west virginia, and western virginia, advisory until 10 00 tomorrow morning. Main concern there is icing. If youre traveling in that direction, if youre a viewer out there, be ready for the potential for icing later. 37 in washington. Cloudy skies. Wintry mix. Not expecting a lot in the way of accumulations. Could be enough to cause a little coating or icing in spots. Particularly this afternoon if youre traveling, be ready for that possibility. More on the weather coming up in just a minute. Back to you at the desk. Tucker, thank you
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The way today. Around our region there is one school delay to pass along now. Page county virginia schools are on a twohour delay. Thats page county, virginia, twohour delay. Tucker barnes joining us now. All that snow, but nothing here. All that video we saw, were going to experience nothing like that around here. We might get a little something, little wintry mix later this morning and afternoon hours, but were not talking about whiteout conditions. You can see how scattered the precipitation is. It is cold enough to support Winter Weather at this hour. Towards charlottesville starting to get possible echos of a little snow. Honestly, much of this probably wont touch the ground over the near term as the atmosphere is still very dry. Weve had the cold air around here the last couple of days. We got to moisten up the atmosphere before this can reach the ground. Temperatures are cold enough to support a little Winter Weather. 32 at Reagan National. Dulles is 30 degrees. Bwi marshall is