Ni im sarah simmons. In for shawn. Arctic blast is bearing down on the d. C. Region bringing frigid temperatures and even colder wind chills. Lets get right to sue palka for an update on this, hey, sue. Sarah, tony, we are head lining the fact that those wind chills will be really hard to take tomorrow. Many places will wake up tomorrow morning to wind chills in single dij digits and its not quite here yet cold are air a couple hours away temperature here in d. C. Is 41. That front will come through between 2 and 4 in the morning and when it does we could also see some snow showers with it. And thats what the crews are worried about. It doesnt may much to cause slippery problems. Theyll monitor for that all night. And boy the big story really is the cold airen ait looks like Endless Supply of pink on the weather map. Because it goes up to canada and ina lass ka. Its truly arctic air coming in and real shock to the system. Because not only is it coldest air is then but coldest in decemb
Ni im sarah simmons. In for shawn. Arctic blast is bearing down on the d. C. Region bringing frigid temperatures and even colder wind chills. Lets get right to sue palka for an update on this, hey, sue. Sarah, tony, we are head lining the fact that those wind chills will be really hard to take tomorrow. Many places will wake up tomorrow morning to wind chills in single dij digits and its not quite here yet cold are air a couple hours away temperature here in d. C. Is 41. That front will come through between 2 and 4 in the morning and when it does we could also see some snow showers with it. And thats what the crews are worried about. It doesnt may much to cause slippery problems. Theyll monitor for that all night. And boy the big story really is the cold airen ait looks like Endless Supply of pink on the weather map. Because it goes up to canada and ina lass ka. Its truly arctic air coming in and real shock to the system. Because not only is it coldest air is then but coldest in decemb
Steve not yet. We are in route 7 in sterling. Moving to ashburn. A little blue in the sky at this hour. The temperatures are cold enough for snow. Roadways are treated so no problems there. So when the light snow does arrive in the next few hours and in the overnight hourses the main roadways seem to be well treated at this point. We will make the final destination in ashburn over the next 15, 20 minutes or so. We will pull out the computers and take a look at what is going on in about 15 minutes. But right now looking at route 7, we are headed to ashburn. No problems at all. The roadways are dry and a little blue sky. Lets head back inside the studios with doug. Doug all right, steve. On the radar and the satellite you can see a little break of clouds in the west. But the other side of the mountains the main weather disturbance to bring us measurable snow tonight. Intermittent for the next few hours and later i the future cast gives us a guide for the everything and the nighttime hour
They are not deploying in earnest until 8 00 tonight. You can see in the distance, that is not snow. That is clear sky in the distance. We are not flurries at the moment. They have pretreated the roads heavily. They are ready when it starts. Pretreatment helps for a while but they will put the trucks out to keep roads moving well as the evening goes on. Reporting live, im tom roussey, abc7 news. Alison tom, thank you very much. We all know it doesnt take much during a commute to cause major problems. Look at this on 66. Although that is always tough this time of day. Lets check in with Jamie Sullivan for the latest. Jamie a lot of heavy traffic. 66 heading outbound bumper to bumper delays. This is not because of the weather. This is just the typical afternoon. Maybe a few people left early to try to avoid any of weather coming in. That is why we are seeing so much congestion. Around the capital beltway, both the givener loop and the outer loop heavy. Inner loop north from mcclain to Mo
Snow will develop at 9 00 and continue through the early overnight hours. Waking up tomorrow morning most of the snow is gone. It is cold out there. Well below freezing. Look for slick sidewalks and, of course, a slow go from the Early Morning rush hour commute. High temperatures tomorrow will eventually make it in the middle 30s. And we will see more sunshine as we move in the afternoon hours. Coming up in a few minutes, once the snow is gone this weekend we will deal with the brutal wind chill factors. More on that with the chief meteorologist doug hill in a few minutes. Maureen thank you so much. Now for the first measurable snow of the season we are bringing out snowtrak7. Remember that . Tom roussey is tracking conditions in the Frederick County area. How is it out there . Tom hey, maureen. We are in snowtrak7. There is no snow to track yet. It should change as the night goes on. Area. This is how it looks. We are headed southbound to upper montgomery county. Things are moving fin