Snow and rain. The radar is clearing out now, but that could all change by tonights commute. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Im randy price. Emily and im emily riemer. Cindy, the upside is some warm temperatures on the way, right . Cindy we sure are. Were waiting for that thermometer to pick up and melt all the ice out there this morning. Its like a skating rink out there really. Although you saw the radar quieting down, the damage is done. It will remain slippery with that icy glaze north and west of boston through about 9 00 this morning. Until the temperatures come up above freezing mark. You can see south of boston right now, it is up to 50 degrees in plymouth. Were in the 40s on the cape but from boston to beverly were at freezing. As you head to the north and west temperature s are in the 20s right now from bedford to lawrence. You can see up toward nashua as well. Just a little bit of pink showing up. We have light freezing rainfalling with the temperature of 25 in keene
You are watching wcvb, boston s news leader. This is newscenter 5 eyeopener. Emily as we follow breaking news, all trains will make it to south station this morning after a signal problem was fixed moments ago. Antoinette and alexa will have much more for you in a minute. Randy the weekend is here. Cindy what a change from last weekend. 50 s this weekend. Big changes coming. Starting out clear and cold. Sun is up this morning at 6 36. Look at these temperatures. You need to just 415 out the door and beverly. Single digits. Boston is 21. Notice lower 30 s. The cape overnight and ocean affect clouds and snow showers are dissipating. We will start with a lot of sunshine for the first half of the day today. Notice off to the west a warm front. This is the leading edge of the warm air that will be here for the weekend. A touch of rain and snow overnight. Throughout the morning hours, lots of sunshine into lunchtime. Clouds come in this afternoon. By lunch, 30 five degrees making it ran towa
Emily and im emily riemer. Cindy, we look at the pictures, the snow and the ice. Some place s are in the 50s right now. Cindy south of boston it is 50 degrees right now. Well all be up in the 50s eventually today. But the concern is the word eventually because right now we still have icing problems north and west of the city of boston from the freezing rain we had overnight. Its created an icy glaze. I expect hazardous travel to continue north and west of boston through about 8 00 or 9 00 this. You can see why. Temperature in town has jumped up to 35 degrees. Notice south of boston its near 50 degrees. I wanted to go in tighter. Marshfield 52. 53 in taunton. As far north as nooraniwood it is 49 degrees but north and west of the city, notice all the 20s locked in tight here around the merrimack valerie up to nashua. Back along northern parts of Worcester County its all in the 20s and a thousand feet up at the airport in worcester where this measurement is taken its 42. At ground level a
45 in worcester and 28 in fitchburg, 27 in temple, New Hampshire. So we are going to see a dramatic jump in temperatures in those cool locations as we travel through the rest of the Morning Hours which means we got icing until latemorning by lunchtime, it is all going to be in the form of plain rain, heavier rain this afternoon with highs getting 46 to 54. Lets get you over to Julie Grauert with live drive time traffic this morning because ice and fog out there, julie, we are going to have to watch out for julie accident on 128 southbound right now, lynnfield near walnut street and shifting south slow spot on the braintree split up through neponset and up to columbia road. Live look at the pike through brighton where visibility still a halt eng, see the fog is lingering and making it tough, also a speed restriction in place of 40 Miles Per Hour. Here are live drive times, 19 minutes on route 1 from 128 to the tobin, 48 minutes on 93 south from 495 to the leverett connector. 32 minutes
This of heavy rain right here along i95 newburyport northward into New Hampshires well stretches back to the Merrimack Valley to pick was in plenty of that heavy rain and then here right in the boston area check this out. Heavy rain right to the south to jp over the gliding cambridge along the mass pike this is a mess for the evening commute. Logan airport to getting some downpours right now heaviest rain is off to the southwest its all coming with very warm temperatures but those warm temperatures low on in here meteorologist jason brewer tracking the storm wins. A lot of self when coming up inside those heavy downpours that are showing us kevin we do have the damaging wind gusts. Look at these guts whites now 55 to 60 miles an hour reported today Milton Worcester 56 rock port 51 and so we are concerned about some scattered Power Outages with this kind of wind. Tree limbs knocking around possibly coming down. The wins right now 45 boston just came in 44 new bedford there 56 gust there